Word: rob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spectacle of nearly two million unemployed workers on her streets is a powerful call to reshape her foreign policy on lines to put it at the lowest of a truer economic expedience. In a word the Government has realized that it is foolish as well as immoral to rob a bankrupt of his tools. It is mortifying to watch another continue that crippling process too, for the effect of it all is not limited to preventing the payment of the debt--it reacts fatally on all creditors. At the moment, England is hardest hit. But it seems inevitable that...
...plea for " help, help, help." Of Mr. Schwab, Mr. George said: "He was the first man to come to our aid in organizing a more ample and efficient supply of munitions. The Kaiser offered him three times the price his great plant was worth in an effort to rob us of his support, but he stood by the Allies. You can therefore appreciate the feeling of a Britisher who took a leading part in the prosecution of the War toward a man who gave such chivalrous and generous aid to the cause of liberty when in jeopardy on the battlefields...
...their arrival in New York; even the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", which has been played to death by dance orchestras everywhere, seems new and different when accompanying the clockwork manoeuvers of the pipe-clayed actors. Balieff, of course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet...
...John Russell- Knopf ($2.50). Twelve tales of savage environments and more or less savage people by the author of Where the Pavement Ends. A tourist searches for "the color of the East" and finds it strangely crim-son-a tropical grafter fights to the death so no one may rob his superiors but himself-criminals, escaping on a former slave ship fall into the hands of the deadly justice of the vampire bats-and so on. The yarns are varied, colorful, exciting, skilfully told, with a knowledge of strange lands and stranger characters that is obviously firsthand. Neither Kipling...
...instead of increasing their nucleus of educated men by putting their universities on a sound financial basis, they seek to spread a thin coating of information over the masses by means of isolated lectures. Meanwhile, conditions in the universities have resulted in a student suicide wave which may easily rob future Russia of the few trained men who might otherwise be available...