Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving set, which ruins the lobster aspic, the piece de resistance of the dinner. There is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past, played in a heroic manner by Comway Tearle; there is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past played in a heroic manner by Conway Tearle; there...
...their traffic in the summer but would have to keep their equipment ready for the winter movement of freight. U. S. carriers to which Reconstruction Finance Corp. has already advanced $350,000,000 are precariously close to bankruptcy and such a subsidy to a competitor would complete their ruin. If the roads were paid what the seaway would cost U. S. taxpayers they could haul free all the grain it would carry and much more besides...
...gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...threats. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions. Threats can destroy business just as they can build barricades. Let no one be afraid-let no one be coerced. . . . The plant manager who thinks he is indispensable to the plant and that no change can be made without ruin is likely to think that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth In the language of the old French proverb, 'the indispensable man is yet to be.' I have no objection to a man saying he would like to hold...
...Treasury Mills, rich and rotund, continued to be the most leather-lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...