Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind. It will carry with it inevitably a curse and penalties which will return to plague the French people precisely as the German people are today paying the most terrible penalties for the rule of the Kaiser and those other Germans, aristocrats and militarists, who brought them to ruin...
...Kaynes are early victims of their generation. Rufus becomes involved in a tangle of bad appearances, bad investments, blackmail, disgrace, resulting in his financial ruin...
...LOVE-Pola Negri succeeds in occasionally vivifying a typical sirenade of Liane, the toast of the boulevards, whose specialty is driving lover after lover to ruin, death, or the booby-hatch. After tenting on the old vamp ground unrepentantly, through numerous reels, she discovers sin's ultimate wage to be strangulation and is murdered by ex-lover No. 19 in the middle of a carnival. A German film with the usual admirable mass-effects...
...enthusiastic tipsy Tyrolean in Zurich, falling in love with Peoppel- man's statue of Spring in a theatre lobby, tried to carry off the maiden in his arms, but she fell and crashed to ruin. Realism has seldom had such a testimonial...
Again Science comes to the rescue. This time it is the American Swiss cheese industry, which was threatened with ruin. The vital problem, explained by Professor Whitman of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, is to determine "without cutting open the cheese, when the holes are of proper size." It is easy to understand the gravity of this matter. Everyone who has had experience with the Swiss cheese of the good old-fashioned sort realizes that the holes are quite the most important part--absolutely essential, in fact, to the appearance, edibility and general atmosphere. Moreover, any cheese without the requisite number...