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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan cost 840 yen ($229). On March 2 the price hit 1,080 and the Japanese Government stepped in and stopped trading for a few days. Nonetheless, the price climbed to 1,195 yen ($325) on April 19, stood last week at 1,160. When this 40% price rise began, the small group of U. S. branded hosiery makers (such as Gotham and Phoenix) which control their resale prices had already announced their spring prices. For fear that unbranded rivals would undercut them, they did not raise prices and continued to manufacture out of previously purchased supplies. Meantime the silk...
...comes from an Irish music-hall ballad, telling how Tim Finnigan of Dublin's Sackville Street, a hod carrier and "an Irish gentleman very odd" who loved his liquor, fell from his ladder one morning and broke his skull. His friends, thinking him dead, assembled for a wake, began to fight, weep, dance...
...eats her farrow") 35 years ago and went to Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary, to live by "silence, exile and cunning." In Trieste his children were born. In 1915 Joyce was so busy with Ulysses that he scarcely noticed that Italy and Austria were about to fight until frontiers began to close. A Greek friend (Joyce is superstitious about Greeks, believes that they bring him luck, that nuns do not) got him permission to leave through Italy. Along the frontier, each time he passed a station, it was dynamited behind...
Joyce's admirers, George Moore, W. B. Yeats, Edmund Gosse, meanwhile began to worry about his perennial poverty, succeeded in getting him ?100 from the Privy Purse, thought that Joyce should show his gratitude by aiding the Allied cause. Joyce, who was under oath to the Austrians not to bear arms and is resolutely unpolitical, thought he did enough by spreading British culture. He founded the English Players and put on his play Exiles...
...through armies, or in northern France and Belgium through heaped wreckage and broken walls. Revolutions threatened and populations starved. Joyce in Paris was close to starving too. But help came to him from U. S. and English expatriates. American Poet Robert McAlmon lent him money, Bookshop Owner Sylvia Beach began publishing Ulysses. Ezra. Pound, Idaho's great expatriate, introduced him to Harriet Weaver...