Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised chickens, milked cows. Dana was mentally unbalanced. He used to wander into the woods, let his hair grow long, pretend to be a "wild man." Declared legally incompetent by the courts, he was placed under the guardianship of Housekeeper Dockery. "Glenwood," once a fine mansion, went to wrack & ruin. Chickens, ducks, pigs, goats, dogs roamed at will through its high-ceiled rooms. Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans were strewn about a dusty library of fine volumes, furniture vanished in debris. The squalid scene with its half-mad characters was strongly suggestive of the morbid Southern...
...veterans, partly by the soldiers. By midnight Bonus City, once the home of 10,000 jobless hungry men & women, was a field of roaring bonfires. President Hoover could see its fiery glow on the Eastern sky from his White House window. At dawn the place was a charred & blackened ruin. The B. E. F. was gone. Not a shot had been fired by the victorious Army...
...strategy is plain in this picture, which he wrote himself, sold for $1. The story is laid in a castle outside Vienna, seen from the perspective of the servants' hall. Gilbert is a new chauffeur with a monkey's flair for mischief. Plausible, playful, roving-eyed, he spreads ruin and rage around...
...dissolved. Last week Trophy Towers Sales Corp. brought a $30,000,000 damage suit against Gillette and 19 of its officers and directors. It charged that the AutoStrop-Gillette merger was a conspiracy in restraint of trade, that the dissolution of Trophy Blade Co. was a conspiracy to ruin the business of Trophy Towers Sales Corp...
...public investigation Assistant District Attorney Martin Wilson ("Bill") Littleton Jr., son of the famed lawyer, revealed he had warned the police: "No third degree. One black eye might ruin a first-degree murder case...