Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business is being ruined by cancelled orders, and the question comes up of whether the family should accept ruin or sell indirectly to the Italian government. They take the noble stand, when out of the sky drops James Madison Clevenger, the news magnate and former passionate admirer of Sara in her acting days. In spite of his cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either...
...newest and most spectacular specific to come to the aid of ailing man last week caused the deaths of at least 41 people, the disability of countless more, the probable ruin of a Southern drug manufacturer and a nation-wide scare, the like of which had not popped out of medicine cabinets since the Jamaica ginger paralyzed Southwestern swiggers...
...State governments for taxes, by her single-minded stepchildren for a share in the vanishing estate. Month ago she filed a petition for bankruptcy. Last fortnight 780 ft. of her waterfront property and the Wigwam, once an impressive exhibit crammed with Indian bric-a-brac, now a tumbled ruin, were auctioned off to Crown Corp. for $252,000, none of which will end in the hands of Mrs. Croker. A remaining 9,500 ft. of Palm Beach waterfront will be sold next month. Last week Mrs. Croker wailed to-the press: "I have no place to go. ... I have spent...
...Nanking. (Mme Chiang's present whereabouts undisclosed for military reasons.) My heart is chilled by the thought of what is coming over the rest of the land in the near and distant future, with our ports blockaded, our wide northern regions being torn by ruin, and all about us here doomed to demolition...
Only in the final paragraphs does the reader discover that Author Adamic intended to be more than picturesque. Here he reveals his real purpose: The Casa del Capuchino, says he, represents the world as "really a Ruin, a Mess, a Wreck." Its restoration represents "what could be done with the Ruin." Interesting for its contrast with Author Adamic's earlier thoughts on the best way to clear "the Ruin" (as set forth in his first book, Dynamite, a historical survey of labor violence in the U. S.) this one will impress some readers as no less...