Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties of the Stinnes concerns relate to the new turn in German currency matters. While the mark was shooting downward toward practical worthlessness, Hugo Stinnes bought everything in sight of a tangible character, and went deeply into debt also. Later, he paid off many of his debts at bargain prices-hence his enormous profits. Meanwhile, he had as little working capital as possible, and the minimum resources in actual money...
Thus does Daniel Guggenheim turn from the bowels of the earth to the heights of the heavens to do for the air what his family has done for the ground...
...bear a daughter when you are still fond of dancing, choke on the resultant respectability, accept a dapper clubman's advances' and slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist-or something equivalent-to seek you out. After years...
...Angeles, seven earnest young men marched one after another to the rostrum of the Philharmonic Auditorium. Arranging his notes, "shooting" his cuffs, clearing his throat, elevating his chin, each young man in turn orated of judges-the Hon. Louis W. Myers, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court; a retired Judge, a female school superintendent, two professors, a learned doctor, a bishop-empowered to award prizes to the amount...
Austrian, thereby incurring the enmity of the patriotic townsfolk. "A turn-coat," they called her, accused her of having encouraged propaganda unfavorable to the interests of Czecho-Slovakia...