Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to his family is to the liquidation of a good part of the Stinnes estate by its bank creditors. Hugo Stinnes had borrowed continuously while the mark was declining?with resulting magnification of his profits. But his successors had allowed themselves to get over-extended when deflation was begun...
...industry without troubling at all about foreign exchanges, we could no doubt have kept our export trade continuously booming at a loss until one exchange crisis after another had so undermined our international credit as to send the pound in the same direction in which the old German mark has gone...
...PLEASURE BUYERS-Arthur Somers Roche - Macmillan ($2.00). The creatures of Author Roche step right out of the more lustrous cosmetic, hosiery, neckwear and tobacco advertisements of our day-glossy-skinned puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
FALSE PROPHETS-James M. Gillis- Macmlllan ($2.00). This book endeavors to refute the Messrs. Shaw, Wells, Freud, Conan Doyle, Haeckel, Neitzsche, Mark Twain, Anatole France. It concludes with a chapter on The Revival of Paganism and another called Back to Christ-or Chaos. Written by a Paulist Father, it is sectarian religious propaganda. It goes so far as to call a rival creed "not a religion but . . . a patchwork composed of odds and ends, shreds, and fragments of false philosophies, put together in an amateurish way by a sadly uneducated Yankee woman...
...true that faith transcends reason, then no theosophical disputation conducted by a believer can be intellectually honest. At some points reason will fall back for support upon faith. Here, these points are many and marked. Yet, within the confines of his citadel, Father Gillan moves always in the open. He is wide-read. He is honest. He is witty. It is with great good humor that he takes the measure of Shaw's "automatic and mechanical perverseness," with true Christian charity that he pities Mark Twain's incurable despondency and Nietzsche's insane courage. He is hygienically...