Word: ruine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidnapped a delegation of reformers investigating the slave trade. Maurice went back to England with the credit and Bill's girl, leaving Mandoa to relapse into the waiting hands of old Ma'buta. Bill and San Talal, no longer in power, watched their little beginnings sink into ruin, hopefully expected the day when they could start building them up again...
Since the house will fall rapidly into ruin unless kept in good condition, it has been suggested that it be torn down. If this is not done, there is a possibility that it be rented to a professor or made into a classroom...
...more human and more credible than Mr. Holmes, less precious in deduction than Mr. Vance, but has one serious dramatic defect. That is his Oriental origin, which calls into play all the ridiculous flummery which passes on the domestic stage for a Chinese accent, which was almost the ruin of Mr. Colton's Shanghai Gesture and which will survive until Mr. Nathan at last hoots it into ignominy...
...rising sea-tide. It lifted the roofs off buildings in inland towns, tore out bridges and highways, rolled abandoned automobiles over & over like dice. The hurricane roared up the Rio Grande Valley snuffing out power stations, snapping electric wires, twisting houses, fences, highways and towns into jumbles of ruin. Then it raced across the Rio Grande, dissipated itself in the wastelands of Mexico. In its wake were 22 dead, 1,500 injured...
...They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery Act. It stands for National Ruin Association . . . [variant : National Racket Administration]. "Premier General Johnson - Wall Street partner of Barney Baruch, the broker- has declared a five-week campaign to put across the five-year plan of Premier Stalin of Russia. . . . "The Blue Eagle is a Russian fish hawk. "Why keep Capone in Atlanta? . . . Why not call...