Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago the battle of the mannequins was waged most politely. Professional models, from their headquarters on East Wacker Drive, sent an appeal to the Gold Coast to refrain from this ruinous competition on the grounds of sportsmanship. Touched, many debutantes promised that they would...
...greatest burdens of Manager Carte's harassed life. He had brought them together four years before, had helped them make the biggest names in Victorian theatrical history. But all his vast reserves of tact and persuasion could not prevent the immensely successful but entirely antipodal collaborators from a ruinous breach over £140 worth of carpet eleven years later...
...understanding of monetary forces to be the central figure in the world's greatest, most inexcusable and most costly tragedy of financial leadership. I ask by what right do you now presume to initiate even a partial return to your policies which have been tested and proved so ruinous...
...mistake to underestimate Professor Holcombe's book. He does know a great deal about American politics, and in pointing to a via media, a middle class compromise, he may be pointing the way for this country. Class conflict might well be ruinous to so heterogeneous a state. The reviewer chiefly takes issue with his assertion that the middle class can deal with real upper and lower class politics in a peaceful way. Astute political leadership might keep class parties from developing in America, but if this fails, then the position of the middle class seems destined to be the same...
...rising from the ranks by diligence and effort to become President not only of one railroad but of many railroads. This has always been desirable, glorious, the aim of all true Americans. Yet in the movie it is analyzed closely to show that it is vicious, wicked, and ruinous to the happiness of the successful man. His life as a track walker was happy; his wife prodded him to ambition and success, which resulted only in unhappiness and suicide for both. This was not portrayed as a result of the characters of the two people, but as a result...