Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ulrika piles up a fortune on commissions out of the general flood of money, after she has thoroughly demoralized the children?the only son develops into a degenerate?and brought the rest of her own family and friends to feed at the trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the influence, and a battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most...
...first of next month, the recently signed immigration bill, on certain features of which there has been so much critical comment, will go into effect. It will have the result of reducing the flood of immigrants entering the United States from three per cent of the total foreign born population in the country in 1910 to two per cent of that population in 1890, virtually eliminating all immigration from the nations of Southern and Eastern Europe, whose representatives have shown themselves to be least susceptible to rapid and complete assimilation...
That "everybody wants to be American" in Russia is not as unanticipated as it first appears. Hitherto the desire has resulted in a flood of Russian emigrants to the United States; and since America has at last shut her doors the impulse must of course seek expression in a less direct way. Even that epitome of Russian cultural development--the Moscow Art Theatre--has evinced a recurrent wash "to be American." And rumor has it that the far-famed Dolly Sisters once rejoiced in a typically Slavic name...
...tried to pick out a week-end book while trying to catch the last train out of town. Even though a part of the booksellers' protest may be answered with the statement that the tremendous in crease of public interest in literature is probably responsible for the flood of mediocre work now issuing from the press, the fact of its mediocrity must be admitted. If the brotherhood and sisterhood of the P. E. N. would divert some of the celestial fire which animates their search for the modern holy grail toward reducing the quantity and raising the quality or present...
...Coady, Harrison Musgrave, R. K. Straus, L. Y. Ward, J. W. Tufts. 10 to 11, L. F. Daley, R. F. O'Neil, J. L. Prescott, H. W. Foote, R. S. Coolidge. 11 to 12, J. R. Burke, G. P. Sturgis, H. B. Jackson, R. T. Flood, R. A. Magowan...