Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deflation. Poland was still at desperate grips with the Red Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive of $250,000,000 worth of munitions and locomotives for the Allies, to peace time production for poverty-stricken markets. Answered President Vauclain, "To be a good businessman is to be an optimist. They will...
ROPER'S Row-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2.50). "Dark and pale," Chris Hazzard was a "little fellow, narrow shouldered, fragile, and lame"-with a big head and "defiant" hair and "a something in his eyes." Ruth Avery, living next-room in London's poverty-stricken Roper's Row, was "a dusky thing, far darker than he was-slim and sensitive . . . not smiling her face had a mute, apprehensive sadness." Yet to Ruth, as to all persons, Hazzard felt unfriendly, not only because he thought his lameness set him apart, but because all social feelings were at a very...
...DERUGA TRIAL-Ricarda Huch- Macaulay ($2). Murder mystery with three differences: 1) it is written by a German woman of 65 ; 2) depending little on suspense, it has a sympathetic main character in an excitable Italian doctor on trial for murdering his cancer-stricken wife out of pity; 3) the doctor's vivacity is opposed, humorously, psychologically, to Teutonic judicial phlegm...
...newsgatherer had the temerity to ask grief-stricken Amanullah if it were true that Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence, British secret agent, had a part in stirring up the revolution...
...high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan. Never the mythical, poverty-stricken Rockefeller boy, he became at 17 a trustee of the Erie Street Baptist. He was junior partner and bookkeeper of the young but prosperous firm of Hewitt and Tuttle. Ecstatically, auto-suggestively, he one day told someone: "I am bound to be rich! Bound to be rich! BOUND...