Word: webs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SPIDER?A murder web spun by a magician...
Domestic Affairs. ."The web of our affairs is extremely delicate, extremely intricate. Producing, transporting, marketing, financing, all require a higher skill, a more intelligent organization, than under a less developed, less prosperous people. . The entire life of the nation, all its economic activities, have become so interrelated that maladjustment in any one of them is sufficient to cause serious disarrangement in all the rest...
...that would be only mildly witty coming from the mouths of imaginary characters be continuously entertaining when imagined as spouting from mythical Helen of Troy, legendary Galahad or biblical Eve? Here is the triangle of Eve, Lilith, and poor old Adam, who gets tossed up and down in the web of their attractions like a fresh-man in a blanket. First Lilith gets him, then Eve, then Lilith, then Eve. (Then he gets a son. The gaieties of Author Erskine's dialog which can be so easily minimized by an understanding of his easy tricks remain as insidious...
...SPIDER?A murder web spun by a magician...
...cousin by marriage to Tsar Nicholas II, tells in a book Rasputin* (ras-poo-teen), published in the U. S. last week, how the peasant monk wove a "tangle of dark intrigue, egotistical self-seeking, hysterical madness and vainglorious pursuit of power, which wrapped the throne in an impenetrable web and isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal couple from his clutches...