Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since that time, so long ago, a welter of story and folk lore has sprung up around the winding river. Along its banks a unique civilization has worked out its development and on its current has floated "the finest calling in the world." That civilization and that calling have been passed on unimpaired to generations that would otherwise have forgotten them in the turbulence of their own existence--passed on chiefly by one writer. His name he gained from the river itself, for once he had found his living there. He had heard the man at the lead call...
...soon to become a mother again. Physicians attended her, but still she was seen with her mother and sister going about her robbed house, managing, helping, hoping. At Hopewell, where the Press kept constant contact with the State police, new factual developments were only a thin trickle amid the welter of rumor, false report and fantasy which piled up from...
...lying propaganda. In that case, would it not be more sensible and less cruel to fight fire with fire and retaliate by spreading propaganda for one's own side? Better to allow both factions to express themselves whether they stick to the truth or not. For in the welter of lies it is quite conceivable that truth, or the closest approximation of it possible, might pay. Honesty would be such a rarity that the person who possessed it would be listened to before everyone else...
...probably in part correct, but with the myopia of the specialist they lose sight of the complexity of the situation. The depression appears not to be the direct result of any single factor, it is not solely an economic, social, or political thing. But out of the welter of plausible arguments one fact persistently rises, that economically, socially and politically the world had lost its balance, its stability. There was over-production, there was too much marginal buying, there was too much of everything...
...series of field-days working off old grudges, boosting what he regards as worthy objects. Prohibition is immediately repealed. Taking a tip from the noble experiment, Thayer revivifies the moribund book business by prohibiting it. The tale leaps from improbability to implausibleness, ends in a gory dime-novel welter. But it is readable; and some of the U. S. satire is telling, though often told...