Word: predieament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Worried by war debts, harassed by war threats, France has followed the wisp of imperialism to bankruptcy. With an unbalanced budget and a hopelessly divided chamber of deputies, she has still to meet both foreign and domestic obligations. In contrast to this predieament. Germany, fat and complacent, has light taxes, a surplus in the treasury, and a stalde currency. It does not matter if moralists point out that she gained this position by repudiating her internal debis through inflation. The policy has been successful, therefore, according to the game of nations, it is justified...
...young lady, cast out by her cruel step-father and robbed by him of her $500 inheritance (less than the usual theatrical fortune), is in a difficult predieament, but she scrubs and cooks so delightfully in return for her room and board that all four young men fall in love with her. Obviously four lovers are three too many, but it takes three acts to eliminate the three unfortunates. If we had been the young lady, we would have picked Houston Richards, who was put out in the semifinals, but of course the script of the play...
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