Word: vortexed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VORTEX-José Eustasio Rivera- Putnam ($2.50). Melodramatic Spanish tale of the South American rubber forests. This only novel of its late author is a famed best-seller in his own country...
...Suritz well. He went out from Moscow to Kabul more than a decade ago. He greased the right palms so adroitly that the British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty flying for his life (TIME. June 3, 1929). Successful Suritz moved from Kabul to Ankara where he has been Soviet Ambassador to Turkey for the past eleven years. Lodged in a super-modernistic Soviet Embassy with soaring porches like the wings...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock...
...Sigvard was set on deserting the dwindling ranks of the Swedish royalty. Last week he took Erika to Britain where Swedish law could not reach him and his fragile little romance crashed across the world's front pages. The young couple, dodging about London, was suddenly at the vortex of a wind storm of high diplomacy. The Swedish Ambassador to Great Britain, Baron Palmstierna, put on his silk hat and called on his King's grandson at his hotel. Could not His Royal Highness put off this whole hasty business for more mature consideration? H. R. H. could...
...itself, and the big A.F. of L. unions declined to join the strike. Socialist Norman Thomas said he would march with the Waldorf picketers, but he did not. Writer Fannie Hurst said she would be there too, but she was not. Only celebrities found in the scraggly, vociferous vortex which circled the Waldorf as the week closed were Inquisitor Samuel Seabury and Impostor Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson. Mr. Seabury was going inside for dinner. Mr. Gerguson was bound he alone knew whither...