Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money to speculative market operators. This condition could not be remedied, as would ordinarily be the case, by raising the Reichsbank rate, because Dr. Schacht put the rate down from 6% to 5% last January, and considers that level necessitously expedient for reasons affecting his defense of the gold mark.* As a result there remained not sufficient sums at the disposal of individuals desiring to borrow for productive enterprise. Therefore, Dr. Schacht informed the German bankers, they must undertake to reduce their loans to market speculators, not by raising their rate of interest, but simply by refusing to lend...
...everyone would agree that the Bible is, or has been, the book having the greatest influence on U. S. culture. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington, D. C., news correspondents and careful student of U. S. folkways, would not agree...
Last week, lacking a political topic worth writing about, and having an eye to furthering the U. S. history he is writing,* and knowing that his newspaper (New York Herald Tribune) would be indulgent, and also knowing a quaint topic when he sees one, Mark Sullivan frankly substituted for political trivia a discussion and some queries about a U. S. institution called McGuffey's Readers. Were they still extant? If not, when had they died...
...Mark's lizard-like son, Andred, steals upon them; then Mark himself. After a baleful interview; seeing that time, after all, favors Isolt and himself; and fearful of changing life's irony into death's futility, Tristram leaves Cornwall on pain of being burned before the lady's forcibly opened eyes...
...made to seem more fabulously white than ever set off against the shadowed course of events at a frowning castle across the channel in Cornwall. There Tristram, "orgulous and full of fate," is discovered lamenting the irony of the wedding he has blindly arranged for his gaunt-armed Uncle Mark, a "man-shaped goat" with a salacious eye. Having awakened late to its meaning for him, Tristram has a name upon his lips that becomes a cry, a despairing exultation: "Isolt, Isolt of Ireland...