Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews are the regents of the exchange forces of the American Union. Every year permits them to rise further to control over the labor power of a folk of 120 millions, while only a few Americans, to their exasperation, stand independent today...
...sails away to France. And from the revue stage and poetic drama, the play proceeds to a forceful sequence of impressionistic scenes. Johnny is found in a trench with his company and while they writhe their twisted limbs in troubled sleep, three great cannon bathed in green light rise over the parapet, ghoulishly croak a lament...
...poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place of the dignified Roman death he had courted, he spent the night vomiting, begging Caulaincourt to give him another potion, spinning out his disconnected, feverish explanation of his rise and fall. Ending with this bitter scene, Caulaincourt's memoirs have an almost symphonic symmetry: they begin at the moment of the Empire's greatest strength and trace its collapse in the swirl of defeats, treacheries, frustrations, massed chances, which followed one another faster than the imagination could...
...founded in 1927 with a stiff "code of ethics" to stamp out various kinds of chiseling then rampant in the sugar refining industry, and incidentally to "promote the consumption of sugar." So profound was the peace that the Institute brought to its harassed industry, so remarkable the immediate rise in the profits of its members, that the Department of Justice grew suspicious that it was a combination in restraint of trade, launched anti-trust proceedings in 1931. The trial lasted six months, the briefs filled 1,500 pages, the testimony 10,000 pages. In 1934 Manhattan's Federal Judge...
Failing such heroic methods, a renaissance in the vigorous vocal disapproval of the Elizabethans would be balm to the shattered soul of the man, dropped between the two halves of Mae West's latest, and condemned to the tortures of a stage show. The rise of the word genteel, and of all that it connotes, during the last century, has effectually outlawed such virile practice as booing, hissing, the throwing of fruit--with the exception of communities on the farthest frontier and of political meetings...