Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male enemies by his treatment of woman as trouble and mischief-maker. Quoting, and later characterizing as "smart-aleck," Max Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin man's pleasure be it good or bad. The godliness of trouble-making women he finds already attacked from the pen of Mark Twain: "These women make me darned tired who try to take in God as a silent partner without his consent." There is nothing new here, save where...
Next the Countess Szembeck, wife of the Polish Minister at Bucharest, was forced to ruin her lace evening gown by reclining in some particularly squelchy mud. "Outrageous!" she stormed, sobbed...
Writing in a style excellently her story, Miss Spencer tells straightlaced jealousies, prejudices, and oruelties of the inhabitants of a small Scottish village kill the independent Effie Gallows and ruin the lives of Schoolmaster John and Minister Kennith, who had loved Effie and been friendly...
...yesterday the Mahatma said." she cried in her shrill voice, " 'Women should play a greater part in our non-violent fight than men, for women are the incarnation of non-violence!' We women must go into the forests and uproot all the palm trees. Toddy* is the ruin of Mother India...
...gambling in wheat." The Omaha Grain Exchange came to a standstill. From Kansas City Charles W. Lonsdale, Vice President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, flayed "price-fixing," and the Farm Board's "heavyhanded policy." The Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce roared angry protests, claimed the Board would ruin grain dealers. Chairman Legge, sitting on 25 million bushels of wheat, scorned these protests as "propaganda" to discredit the Board, bragged...