Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor of California, and now, two months later the bonds of the Golden State have decreased one-tenth in market value. Every indication points to the fact that this timidity of capital will continue until election, when, if the former Socialist is elected, it will turn to precipitate flight...
...exciting means of transportation but to youngsters, not so. Last week a 10-year-old named Elsa Elizabeth Geise flew from Seattle to Newark, unaccompanied, on a plane of United Air Lines. From her home in Fairbanks, Alaska, she had reached Seattle by boat. Thoroughly unimpressed by her transcontinental flight, she told astonished newshawks: "First thing I'm going to do is ride in a streetcar, because I've never been in one. Then I'm going to ride in the subway. Then I want to ride in an automobile. . . . Then I'm going to ride...
...wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque seen through a glass darkly, by a keen but puzzled...
...scared as the second act of the Washington drama begins to take on the atmosphere of a professor's bad dream. With one man in every six on the government relief rolls, with an avowed Socialist about to become the Democratic Governor of California; with capital slowly beginning a flight out of the country, the conventional happy ending seems a bit doubtful. Of course there is still time to work around to the usual solution, but indications point to a collapse of government credit before the final curtain. In addition, the playwright has placed a broad interpretation on the laws...
...time. In every case one of the two took instant command of the situation, reduced the other to submission. The bully got 97% of the food, started all but a negligible percentage of the fights, never cowered, seldom retreated. To this treatment the browbeaten monkey responded by passivity, cringing, flight, or female sex behavior, regardless of the sex of the pair...