Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young assistant; his heredity and the environment of a storm rescue him, ruin her. A red-blooded Britisher, finding himself a cuckold, prepares to do the traditionally manly thing; takes wiser advice in time...
...some difficult scenes. He must lecture his new detective; he must provide honorable exits for adulterous husbands; he must, in one moment, bluff a confession from some murderer, and, in the next, pat the shaggy head of a boy prodigy. This is the sort of thing which acting will ruin. But Mr. Stone is glad, as always, to remain Mr. Stone...
...that Dearborn, Michigan, hardly has the ingredients of a scientific oasis for the decade of mental famine; it seems a little chauvinistic of Mr. Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken, withal. Such details must occasionally be wildly wrong; such detail is of utmost necessity to the interest and vividness of the prediction...
...cease," declared Chief Adjutant Hess, "but the Party's attitude toward department stores remains unchanged in principle. Its solution will follow in due course. In view of the Government's fight against unemployment, it is undesirable to undertake at the present time anything calculated to ruin stores which employ so many thousands...
Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess...