Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situations are almost parallels. In each case, a disaster threatened; in each case, authority refused to check the force of events lest the very movement of checking should bring on catastrophe. The memoirs of Grey of Fallodon match the apologies made for Coolidge and Hoover." Calling the 1929 crash not inevitable but predictable and predicted, Seldes shows how the U. S: gradually began to disbelieve official explanations of the Depression and official prophecies that it would soon be over. He disagrees with "the incompetent business man" who "let it be known that fortunes were made by fools like himself...
...only thing it cannot do, according to its inventors, is crash...
...House, returning to him often with his make-up still on. When he sails for Naples Scotti will carry by hand Caruso's photograph and the little bronze head. In Naples, where Caruso is buried. Scotti will pass the rest of his life, simply, now that the stockmarket crash has taken most of his earnings. But he will not write his memoirs. Above all, he will not teach. "I have heard too many great singers." he said last week. "I would be too critical...
...Pacific Coast in an Irish troupe. Ten years ago George Burns and Gracie Allen teamed up in vaudeville in Boonton, N. J. at $10 a performance. At first it was Gracie who played the exasperated "straight" to George's fatuous lines. Audiences awarded George's gags a crash of silence, roared at Grade's twittery voice, her air of blissful inanity. They promptly changed places. Three years later in Cleveland George Burns and Gracie Allen were married by a peace justice who was in a hurry to go fishing. Their taxi ticked up only 15? waiting time...
...welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins a street-corner meeting in which a policeman is killed. He is convicted of the murder and hanged, largely because...