Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DEIRDRE-James Stephens-Macmillan ($2.50). The story of Deirdre, Ireland's Helen of Troy-the pursuit of her by King Conachur of Ulster- her flight with Naoise, son of Usna-her life in exile with Naoise and his brothers-her ruinous beauty-the tragic end of it all and the tremendous last fight where the sons of Usna, caught in Conachur's treacherous net, were conquered at last by magic, after slaying their hundreds. And Deirdre died on her young husband's body, singing their keen. A beautiful retelling of one of the finest folk-tales...
...Chancellor, in his speech in Berlin, made it clear that the German economic situation could not be ameliorated until the Ruhr dispute was settled. With Winter looming large in the future, Germany was forced to make every effort to end her ruinous policy in the Ruhr and to make gigantic efforts to bring some sort of order into the hectic chaos now prevalent in the Reich...
...reprinted in the current "Living Age", "offers the world an unprecedented example of a nation wise enough not to be led astray by our stupidly standardized civilization". The author recalls that this even-tempered nation of the Orient herself represents a mature and wise civilization which has escaped the ruinous fate of Babylon, Greece, and Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self-sufficiency and a desire to be left...
...Fifth, that the argument that the falling-off of our foreign trade will prove ruinous is ill-founded for such trade only constitutes 5 percent of the total. What little stoppage there may be in this field, therefore, is of little or no consequence and will have no noticeable effect on the general business outlook...