Word: followed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investments abroad, apart from War loans, is seen as an indication of "something wrong" with the domestic market. Purchase of goods, usually nonessentials, on long-term payments, is blamed for "bolstering up" business dangerously with industrial depression sure to follow...
...June they had crammed four drawers of a steel filing cabinet with evidence and were ready to "break" the story. Editor Payne took his material before Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey, who promised to follow up with a state investigation...
...horse, Sir Henry, over no mere matter of furlongs but three four-mile heats, held half an hour apart. The crowd dwarfs even a modern world series throng, being estimated at 100,000. Shrewd hindsight permits the author to mark the event as foreshadowing a struggle that was to follow it in 40 years. It is the South against the North. Betting and feeling run high. Behind young Quincy sits the illustrious Congressional orator, John Randolph of Roanoke, pouting and shouting with grim intensity. If Sir Henry conquers, John Randolph will go to Europe on his winnings: Eclipse wins. John...
From this curtain raiser to the very end of the play, magnificent and gruous scenes follow one another in lightening-like procession. Before, Cecil B. DcMille backdrops, two caoruses heavies and half-points, vie with one another. The little girls dance remarkably, and twice on Monday night succeeded in stopping the show. They are perfectly instructed, and steps which would seem banal if performed in solo seem unbeatable when drummed out in chorus. Their larger sisters make up in voice for their lack of beauty. George Jean Nathan will never award any pretzels to these frauds for looks, but despite...
...stately, breathing the musty grandeur of old cathedrals and shufffling monks. Rochester applauded it courteously. Rochester saved its loudest approval for Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, after its awful pessimism had finally been led by the cellos and the big basses into a despair too deep for the violins to follow...