Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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England's slump appeared in unemployment figures totaling 1,802,912 against 1,356,598 year ago; in slack seasons for seaside resorts like Brighton, Bournemouth and Ryde; in coal production, down from 20,000,000 tons year ago to 17,000,000 this June. The figures which most jolted British investors were the earning reports of the four chief railway companies-London & North Eastern, London, Midland & Scottish, Great Western, The Southern. Fortnight ago, when all four showed net revenues far below expectations and Great Western passed the first interim dividend since its consolidation, there were editorials in many...
...BRIGHTON ROCK - Graham Greene - Viking...
...best, Brighton Rock, a psychological gangster novel, creates an atmosphere as sinister as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; at its worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition...
...second prize, of $200, was won by Robert E. Wernick '38, of Brighton, for a paper on "Moby Dick and Pierre: Society and Solitude...
...Sales prize of $60 for the best scholar in Spanish, from the bequest of Francis Sales, A.B. 1835, was divided between James Etmekjian '39, of Brighton and Kari T. Soule, Jr. '39, of Rochester, New York, as the result of an examination taken several weeks...