Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...destruction at one blow of 20 years' work for the improvement of women," " a decision which leaves out of consideration the social point of view, the public interest and the human element," " a calamity to the women workers of the country," " slavery for women who earn their own living...
...trend of critical opinion: THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL?D. H. Law-rence?Seltzerr ($2.00). This volume contains three long stories, each a vivid symbolic study of a character caught in the spiritual unrest following the war. In The Captain's Doll an Austrian countess is forced to earn her living by making doll-figures, one of a Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll of her husband." In The Fox a young returned soldier woos and wins an older woman...
...with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
Lord Leverhulme, soap magnate and ex-Minister of Munitions: "Thomas Kennedy, Secretary of the Social Democratic Federation, contested my statement that a man can earn ?100,000 a year. I pointed to Henry Ford and said...
...murders in Massachusetts, while serving a fifteen year sentence in Pennsylvania for another crime. He received a pardon from Governor Sproul to enable him to stand trial on the charge of murder. His story to the jury of his life is the old story of a failure forced to earn an illegitimate livelihood by the grasping attitude of society. But coming to the murders this confessed criminal admitted that his confession was "faked", claimed his entire innocence and said to the jury quietly...