Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living in cheap lodgings, making her son's clothes, putting him in a charity hospital. She bullies her bankers. When she grudgingly gives money for a free clinic it is only for spite, to take business away from private practitioners. Throughout the years it is her aim to ruin a banker (Lewis Stone) who jilted her in her youth. During the Panic of 1907 she succeeds, unmoved by the fact that her son has married his daughter. When Hannah Bell at last finds out why the banker's pride forced him to leave her, she wanders stonily...
...Congress fails to carry through with the President's suggestions. I foresee a revolution greater than the French Revolution. It is either Roosevelt or ruin...
General Johnson's hot answer loosed hotter Senatorial wrath. Reiterating his charges of monopoly and ruin for small businesses, Senator Borah boomed. "When those things are remedied I will cease my efforts and not till then." And Mr. Nye cried eloquently: "Nero may rant and roar, but all the browbeating he may resort to will not destroy, though it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing ... to the end that the plunderbund may enjoy larger monopoly...
...herself that her father was not a great man, a worthy statesman, a good husband, a beloved father. Before that she has ample proof that all is not well in her family. Her sister Charlotte runs off with a ham actor. Rumors of her father's impending ruin drive Sara to a shocking interview with his mistress. Again & again the faithful Paul offers himself as a second-best husband, but Sara will not have him even after he is a widower. In spite of his unexplained departure and long silence, in spite of the series of anonymous letters telling...
Mused Mary Pickford in Chicago: "Women ought to learn that kindness is sometimes the most devastating and weakening influence. Wives especially make this mistake. There ought to be a school where women are taught to be reasonably selfish. It is the unselfish ones who ruin themselves and everyone depending upon them...