Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute Fox Theatres stock to his patrons (TIME, Oct. 21) before the stockmarket crashed...
...Living Corpse. In Moscow, toward the end of the 19th Century, it was a gypsy singer, her grave gypsy songs, and the sultry, southern wines which drew Fedya Protasov away from his home and a sweet wife who tried helplessly to forget him. But Fedya, despite his weak lips and wanton tastes, was not the total wreckage that he seemed. For one thing, he never took advantage of the passion innocently offered him by his beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce...
This is particularly unfortunate, for Playwright Charles A. Kenyon makes the girl's vacillation between bawdry and respectability a very real and painful thing, and suggests that desperation might cause her to run away. Indeed, had she returned to her earlier lover, the denouement might have been more convincing than it is now, for Charles D. Brown gives him rough-cut, magnetic aspect...
...serpent swallowed a frog and was subsequently clubbed to death by a huntsman. During the clubbing the frog emerged alive, hopped away...
...logging camp. Then she took men. Joe Pete grew, watched what was going on loved his mother, took care of the other children, said nothing. When the Lithuanian Jaakkola came to the island, Mabel's degeneration became complete. Two of the children died, Mabel died, Joe Pete went away to school, learned how to help his Ojibway people, helpless before the white man's legal wiles...