Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pengelly, evil from his mother's womb and now a professional blackmailer, had betrayed Osmund to the police, and Osmund and his pals knew it. After all these years Pengelly had invited his victims to a conference, hoping to use them in his business. Gunn turned up just in time to make one of the party, to witness the bloody finale, to discover that Helen was his at last...
...Author. Hugh Seymour Walpole, pleasantly unprofound novelist, is the son of an English bishop and feels that Life is earnest. Even in such a holiday tale as this he dutifully wrinkles his forehead, doubtfully wonders about such dark questions as the borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English...
...over a year the Farm Board had cushioned U. S. wheat growers against the thudding decline of world prices. Now it could not, would not, play shock-absorber any longer. The experiment had been too expensive. Wheat men would have to cure the fundamental evil of overproduction for themselves. But Chairman Stone found it hard to make them see a difference between last year's "emergency" of 75¢ wheat which put the Farm Board into stabilizing and last week's "nonemergency" of 60¢ wheat which the Board would...
...city when down in Georgia and South Carolina there is food going to waste. . . . The Negroes on the farms in the South are happy. There are no bread lines there. However, it appears that those who said goodbye to the farm and moved to the cities have fallen upon evil days. They need to be told of the opportunities that await them...
...built a $2,300,000 theatre with a bronze statue of his father, Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, in the lobby. The father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator with a theatre and office building to fill, as well as a producer. I was in a hurry to recoup my losses...