Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trinity College and a member of the Irish bar, he wandered the Continent for several years. Profoundly excited by the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau, Blennerhassett had been attracted to Paris, where he soon began intensively cultivating the taste for revolution and romanticism which was to be his ruin a few years later a few thousand miles away...
With all his clever and sometimes shady deals and in spite of the fact that his harem did finally bring his ruin. Solomon lives in the literature of the Bible as one of the most human, the wisest, and a God-fearing man. This son of David, son of Bath-sheba, even as his wise words, has become "a proverb and a byword among the people...
Although it contains a suburban little romance, oddly out of key with its world-shaking social events, Things to Come is most interesting in its depiction of ruin Novelist Wells's imagination flourishes when he visualizes gas bombs falling, children being killed, Brooklyn Bridge destroyed, the Eiffel Tower collapsing, rats and wild dogs roaming the streets. But when he comes to imagine the productive days of the reconstruction he can only dream vaguely of semi-subterranean cities flooded with artificial light, peopled by graceful creatures in shapely garments growing agitated over the thought of a flight around the Moon...
...permits the editors of his individual papers to accept beer and liquor advertisements at their own discretion, notes with delight that none is so indiscreet as to do so. A boyhood job as barkeep's assistant in a hotel taught Publisher Gannett to say: "After watching booze ruin men, I made up my mind that if I ever got a chance I would fight...
Redheads on Parade (Fox). Sooner or later the musical cycle which started with backstage stories had to get around to a back-camera story of the making of a musical cinema. In this one, Alan Dinehart is an independent producer who faces ruin until he obtains the backing of Raymond Walburn, manufacturer of Titianola, a red dye for hair. Walburn becomes a producer of pictures partly because of his interest in Dixie Lee, who is in love with John Boles, and partly because of his grudge against Jean Harlow, the leading anti-Titianola influence (who does not appear in Redheads...