Word: shylocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only a fraction are active members. There are about 300 actors. The rest are writers, painters, sculptors, playwrights, newspapermen and a few acknowledged patrons of the arts, of which Vincent Astor is most prominent. In glass cases on the wall of the club hang Booth's Hamlet and Shylock costumes, his pipes, the skull he used in Hamlet. It is a real skull. Tradition says it is the shell of a murdered man who willed it for Booth's use. Another treasured relic is Mark Twain's check for $200,000, which he, experimenting as a publisher...
...reported that Americans were wearing "We Won the War" buttons, was later jailed by England for another fraud. The vexed matter of debt collection is skillfully elucidated following an esthetic discourse on skyscrapers, of which the "stone and steel logic" is shown to be the reality behind the Uncle Shylock myth. The soul within the logic comes through in the eyes of Manhattan office workers who, it is well known, sometimes pause to gaze in breathless wonder at their ethereal city...
...Lord Rothermere could pay tribute to his discretion. The opinions which the peer so emphatically disclaimed touched on England's debt to the U. Su For several days Thomas Marlowe featured what he called "Cold Facts on British Debits," There was a cartoon of Uncle Sam as Uncle Shylock. There was an article headed USury (the lifting of the two capitals was not accidental...
...into the limbo where hairs are split-often by honest, well-intentioned men. The total result of last week's academic tilt was to rouse a majority of British editors to frenzied indignation at the U. S. Cartoons labeled "USury" were frequent in which " Uncle Sam" became "Uncte Shylock," and was adorned with unmistakably Semitic features. Late despatches reported that this orgy of futility seemed to have spent itself temporarily...
...According to Socialist doctrine, capitalism is dying and the capitalist is a vampire, a Shylock. According to our doctrine all this is nothing but bad literature. Not only is capitalism not declining but it has not even reached the dawn...