Word: automaton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story is of an iron-willed woman who has reached the pinnacle of commercial success, but who in doing so has, to outward appearances, allowed the milk of human kindness to curdle. Her son she considers a weakling, and she is on the verge of making her daughter an automaton, trained to carry on the Green tradition of close-fisted, hard-hearted dealings. It happens that the son redeems himself, and the young girl's dormant emotions are awkened by the agency of Mr. James Hall, who, incidentally, turned in a rather flabby performance...
...cowardly, priggish hypocrite; when Sir James Latta gave him a job in India Brodie said good riddance. Only his youngest daughter Nessie found favor in his eyes: that was because she was bright in school. Brodie drove her to study every spare minute, deviled her into a learning automaton to win the famed Latta Prize, do the town...