Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappointed in TIME, in that it is not the non-partisan periodical we had felt the need of, but one using its influence to lead our country into the jeopardy of leadership of a party pledged to the repeal of the 18th Amendment and whose hazardous policies might mean ruin at the present time. . . . MRS. HARRY T. LEWIS...
...Emerson D, would glance across the heads of his listeners at the Gothic tower and exclaim: "Gentlemen, take Memorial Hall for instance. What else could you take it for!" Nor would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany. For the Vagabond sees only the frost-blushed ivy on a fine full day in the dawnlight, remembers only the inspiring sight of the citadel lighted blue green by moonlight and snow, and he rejoices in his retreat...
...libertine bachelor caught in the threes of "a pure love for a pure woman." There are some really excellent opportunities here for wit, satire, and unrestrained nonsense which Benn Levy utilizes to their full possibilities. Free from the elements of moral responsibility, and the philosophy of Bortrand Russell which ruin some very effective comic situations in "Cynara," this farce is not diluted with any common-sense...
...Calamity" concerns the attempts of Arliss as an aged but active captain of finance to keep his family at home for dinner. The action in the picture comes as a result of the butler's advice to Arliss that "the poor don't get to go out much." Feigned ruin on the part of the successful financier follows in short order, and the true storing qualities of his family are brought out when his son tries to got a job, and his daughter runs off to marry a boy whom she dislikes, in order that she may be able...
...didn't you dissolve the Reichstag when the Socialists, who accepted the Young Plan, which brought the country to ruin, were in power...