Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither marriage nor motherhood could save her. In her husband (Van Heflin), a dull-witted country doctor, Emma discovers an ideal cuckold. Thereafter her course is clear: the well-beaten path from boredom to eroticism to ruin. When she learns at last that her lovers-a handsome philandering landowner (Louis Jourdan) and a petty law clerk (Christopher Kent) -are only men of clay, when she has lost the love of her child and squandered the family fortune, Emma takes the bitter way out: arsenic, agony and death...
...attempt.began in 1945 when hustling Jim Pfohl, then a 32-year-old music professor at Davidson College, came upon an abandoned summer camp for boys in the woods near Brevard. The lake was a weed patch; the buildings were gone to rack & ruin. Pfohl made a pay-you-later deal with the owners, rebuilt the camp and opened it. After three seasons in the red, he persuaded Brevard's civic leaders to back the camp...
...surprising ally in elderly, mustached Ralph Flanders of Vermont, a longtime internationalist. He thought the pact did not go far enough; he wanted to turn it into a rejuvenated U.N., equipped with its own international police force. Senator Flanders was convinced that the Politburo had set out to ruin us economically . . . by a "budgetary ambush," forcing the U.S. into a bankrupting arms race...
...write a story about it. Someone else, reading the story, might contribute a further step in the realization of the dream. But if that same engineer should write the "impossible" idea into a technical article, it probably would not be published, and if published, might mean his professional ruin . . . Louis E. GARNER JR. President...
...sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple. Strangely enough, he does not fall down an elevator shaft in the end or meet with any other fit (and customary) punishment, but the last scene indicates a total breakdown is near...