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...until the middle of 1921 did the German people as a whole begin to realize what was going on. Then the mark had fallen to one-twentieth of its value. Exchange booths sprang up in public squares, railroad stations, banks. Germans found they could realize "profits" by buying foreign currency one day at one rate and selling it a few days later for several thousand marks more...
Meanwhile, auction houses sprang up at every corner. Farmers refused to sell their produce for such dubious exchange, traded milk, eggs, potatoes for pianos and fur coats. Dentists hoarded gold; china, rugs, pictures, electrical equipment, furniture were at a premium as Germans tried to put all their available cash in goods of intrinsic value. A nation's economic life disintegrated because its money went...
...immediate danger to Scandinavia rolled up swiftly like a thundercloud. No Scandinavian head has lain entirely easy since Russia attacked Finland, but the new danger sprang indirectly from a humanitarian impulse. The world's heart had gone out to the Finns, and nation after nation put out a helping hand. Sooner or later Germany was certain to grow uneasy because of this world hostility to her quasi ally, Russia...
...London barrister, an idealist, but no businessman, pink-faced Tom Hughes set the younger sons to laying out cricket fields, tennis courts, organizing a Rugby football team, dramatic societies, a cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which included a practically complete set of Hughes first editions, a rare Dickens item, pamphlets by the younger Pitt, the entire series of Illustrator Kate Greenaway. Tom Hughes's mother moved there, lived out her life in "Uffington House." But Tom Hughes's wife thought the whole thing was silly...
...engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed, sprang and flew through such cinema classics as Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers, The Black Pirate...