Word: maelstrom
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...complete his plan, readers will find The Death of a World integral in itself. Annette Riviere and her only son Marc do not join in the rejoicing with which Paris greets the Armistice. Annette's warm heart fears what will happen to Marc in the post-War maelstrom, but her cool head warns her to keep her hands off. They are very poor, and Annette steadfastly refuses to take money from her half-sister Sylvie. who as the shrewd mistress of a millionaire is riding high on the tidal wave. When Marc finishes school, he and his mother part...
...worst. The ticker fell so far behind (it closed 50 minutes after the market) that some traders, not knowing how deep a fall might be in progress, dumped stocks as a safety measure. Stop-loss orders and impaired margins dumped still bigger quantifies of shares into the maelstrom. Not since 1929 had the market had such a day or such a three-days. Rumor ran wild: the Exchange was going to close; speculators were jumping out of windows; President Roosevelt had had an apoplectic stroke the night before; he had died at noon and was being laid...
...Walker, describing the policemen in New York, deserves attention because of the naivete of the author. According to him some policemen in the overpopulated city are dishonest; some are gentlemen, most are human. Yet the disappointment which the reader hay have, having read this, will be lost in a maelstrom of laughter after completing a letter by someone who was insulted because a freshman at Yale said that his college has produced few great men in this century. This someone has written a biting invective on the lack of merits of Harvard graduates. Although it is slightly childish, is much...
...Atlantic Ocean last week thrust another puzzle at seafaring man. Over the Georges Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...
...Significance. Poet Van Doren seems to say the old stock is dwindling into nothing or losing itself in the maelstrom of the city. The U. S. might have been a Promised Land but its chance is passing, perhaps has already passed...