Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor man. It would become a tax on destitution and poverty. It was a consumption tax and would thus stifle economic recovery. Once incorporated in the Federal tax system, it could never be got out. Precisely because it was easy to collect, it would stimulate governmental extravagance, thwart economy. To match the Hearst Press's whoops for the Sales Tax, the Scripps-Howard chainpapers whooped loud against it in "defense" of housewives and wage-earners. The manufacturers' lobby quietly rejoiced...
...shore, Now land and life finale and farewell. The music, dictated by Delius note by note to his young friend Eric Fenby, was accepted by Britishers as a worthy epilog to a quiet, distinguished musical career. Fifty years ago Delius' parents did all they could to thwart their musical son. They wanted him for the stuff & yarn trade. When he refused they sent him to Florida to tend an orange grove. Thereafter Delius spent little time in England. He studied in Leipzig for a while, settled finally in France to write gentle, sombre music, much of it reminiscent...
Things have come to a pretty sorry pass when the success of modern education depends on the availability of parking places. The Vagabond is frankly depressed. But if traffic and the machine age combine to thwart the intellectual, perhaps they can be forced to aid education. The Vagabond,peering into the dim future sees a new Harvard. It has become so thoroughly Oxfordized that the students have "scouts", and television has become the accepted means of education. He sees a room in Lowell House, a students figure reclining on a couch, a henchman hovering over an instrument in the corner...
...novel by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. which was partly a lecture on Reno in travelog manner and partly a triangle lovestory is used here as the basis for the first picture Ruth Roland has made in years. She is the wife of a businessman who, faithless and cruel, tries to thwart her divorce. He accuses her of intimacy with a former suitor whom she met by accident on the train. A little child is involved in the suit, and this secures the sure laugh that children's voices get on the microphone and also gives Miss Roland a chance to sing...
...brilliant game he used to exhibit consistently. He could not get through Doeg's smashing left-hand service, losing at love nine out of his opponent's last 16 service games. Doeg, never surefooted, never brilliant, aced him 28 times, played Tilden's deep backhand to thwart the maestro's terrific placement game. With the match score 10-8, 6-3, 3-6 in Doeg's favor, the crowd sat on the edge of their cushions at the beginning of the last set. Still quarreling with decisions, Tilden mustered all his declining strength, twice made...