Word: drowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shalach Monos Tregger who carries the gifts from house to house. Today many a Jewish family celebrates Purim by giving a jolly party, eating Haman Taschen (poppyseed cakes) and reading the Megillath (scroll) of Esther. Children like it because whenever the name of Haman is mentioned they may drown it out by shouting, stamping their feet, whistling and whirling a noisy rattle...
...Greengable goes off to Europe to drown his love for Sylvia in dissipation. Jacqueline puts her discords into music. Sol has the happy thought of poisoning his wife; unfortunately he overindulges and she dies. Angela discovers a simple soul who believes he is Jesus; under her tutelage he acts the part. Arthur Brisbane writes: "So Jesus has returned! Millions all over the world will welcome the news. Other millions will wonder what He is going to do about international debts, politics, taxes, love, prohibition and the grasping public utilities. But whatever happens, you may rest assured that California, as usual...
...Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed into weak self-pity. When his brother decided to reside in England permanently, Stephen managed to join him again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought "Shipmates," the country seat of Sir Nigel Fearless, a bankrupt baronet, who promptly proceeded to drown himself as a family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance. When Maxwell tried to take an innocent-looking...
...formula for a successful party: "A boy and a half to a girl, if a dinner dance, and two to one if a supper dance, rather than three or four boys to a girl. The men would enjoy the dance more and would not have to 'drown their sorrows,' the girls would have more consistent dancing." Ended awesome Miss Cutting: "Tell the Yale young people that I am not such an ogress as I am said...
When Christopher kisses Emily she falls in love with him and is promptly expelled from the house by her father. When she learns that men betray she rushes off to drown herself, but Invalid Lilian makes a huge last effort and saves her, at the cost of her own life. Old Mr. Chilvester takes Emily back again. Her true Chilvester blood coming out at last, Emily stands shoulder to shoulder with her parent while he fights a hopelessly losing struggle against the combined forces of society. His efforts sap the old man; merciful death comes for him before he realizes...