Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revised ending of Geneva brings the news that Hitler's troops have invaded Poland. Gloats Der Führer: "While you have been talking, my army has been doing." He turns to Mussolini for help. "Do you suppose," barks Il Duce, "that I am going to ruin my country to make you emperor of the universe?" He turns to the diplomat, taunting him that England will not fight. "Fight? We shall wipe you off the face of the earth!" He turns defiantly to them all: "I shall sweep through Poland like a hurricane." "Do so by all means, Comrade...
...rally, Richard M. Russell '14 termed his opponent in the mayoralty campaign, Mayer John W. Lyons, a "waster, libeler, and slanderer," and called upon the voters to save Cambridge from "bankruptcy and ruin." Lyons recently lost a $12,000 libel suit to John D. Lynch whom he had libelously attacked...
...years would bring. Rightly they foresaw a decade of struggle, of widespread distress, of mounting tension. Hopefully some of them dreamed of a return of the bull market whose knell was sounded when the clang of the bell ended trading on Oct. 24. Gloomily, more of them saw ruin ahead, riots, revolution, convulsions and crisis. On schedule the tests of U. S. strength arrived: unemployment increased, banks failed, riots shook the country...
...found himself answered by torrential letters that this was Europe's, and not civilization's, war. As in the first days of the crisis that was called the crash, citizens divided between those who believed that it would soon be over and those who believed that only ruin and the end of reasoning man lay ahead. No genius was needed to foretell the war's coming. But no genius was clairvoyant enough to predict its outcome or its end, to guess the magnitude of the struggle or how, eventually, its antagonists would line up; no philosopher...
...fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul's lissome wife Irene (Sigrid Gurie) to resume her career as a cabaret songster, both...