Word: savely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollis Pifer remembers his mother taking him to the railing, calling, "Save my child." He remembers being thrown into the arms of a sailor aboard another noisier, dirtier boat, watching wide-eyed as the San Juan sank, while horror-stricken passengers and crew swam about in oily water. "Oh, grandma," said little Hollis next day in San Francisco, "the ship sank...
...stale it is hardly amusing even when parodied. A faintly witty caricature-the radio announcer at the football game. College Coquette (Columbia). Garnished with some guttural and vapid dialog in the mouths of Ruth Taylor and William Collier Jr., the formula of the hero who is expelled after saving his roommate from disgrace is varied by having a girl expelled after trying to save the honor of another co-ed who lost her virtue and walked down an elevator shaft. The survivor, after expulsion, marries the football coach. Typical shots: quartet singing, gin drinking, hockey, football, swapping fraternity pins...
...conceive a child. She was cold as well as unfit. Yet when Bill was killed in a laboratory explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these events are "a counsel to eagles, and a warning to their despoilers...
Alas! Whereto may I truste?. . . Why, than ye wyll forsake me all!. . . O, all thynge fayleth, save God alone...
...touch of Midas turned things to gold. In the legends of finance the name of J. P. Morgan is supposed to have the same effect. All sorts of stocks are sometimes labelled Morgan stocks, yet no one save the uncommunicative partners at 23 Wall St. really knows exactly what companies have Morgan connections, or how much stock interest, if any, J. P. Morgan Co. holds in them. Speculators eager to know how much the name of Morgan is like the touch of Midas, have spent much time calculating what profit Morgan stocks have shown...