millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man does not…When you are underfed, harassed, bored, and miserable, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.
It indicated the restless vivacity of her spirit, which to-day was doubly indefatigable in its tiptoe dance, because it was played upon and vibrated with her mother's disquietude.
During the treatment I was pretty weak, each time I had to go up stairs my breathy got short, my heart was running and I felt very tired in the evenings.
In a 1940 book, "The Unemployed Man and His Family," described a family in which the husband initially reacted to losing his job "with tireless search for work".