Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...search for happiness. . . . Apparently his family lacked both sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment. But the lawyers were not emotionally involved. They could have kept their heads, and if they were any good they could and would have talked like a Dutch uncle to these pathetic people stumbling to their ruin. They should have led them to adjust the matter out of court. Things like that are done every day for the protection of the innocent and to the immense advantage of the general public. But every once in a while, as in the Rhinelander case and the Stillman case...
...General Medical Council, registered surgeons were unable to correct it. They did not pretend to. Their final verdict was, 'You must go to Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic, though I hasten to add that this was the effect of my wife's curiosity...
Last week Sidi Muhammad, brother of the indomitable Abd-el-Krim, called for foreign intervention in Morocco affairs. Said he: "To continue war means ruin, although we can stand another year at this rate ... Is there nobody-America, England or Italy-who is ready to speak for peace...
...York Times: "Mayor Hylan was originally a Yellow Hero created by the Yellow Press. He has openly appealed to the basest motives. But now the idol goes down together with its builder in political ruin. New York may breathe more easily this morning. It has got rid of a vulgar and debasing tyranny...
...doubtful whether either took comfort in his homecoming. For a storm seemed brewing. Unemployment, a coal subsidy, industry running down hill?and then that query from George B. Hunter, the shipbuilder, that query echoed by half a dozen of the country's industrialists: "Are we on the road to ruin?" The question put directly in a public letter to Mr. Baldwin...