Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 21, second son of the onetime German Crown Prince; to Lili Damita of Hollywood, French cinemactress. Stopping in Los Angeles, last week. Prince Louis said he liked the town, might stay, might work, might get naturalized...
...Boston department store clerk, onetime crack amateur golfer (protege of Amateur Francis Ouimet); and Caroline Isabel Phelan of Boston, daughter of Banker James J. Phelan; in Newton, Mass. Banker Phelan did not fancy a son-in-law who made a career of golf. Golfer Norton stopped playing, went to work...
...Bronx, N. Y., one Morris Goldstein, out-of-work, despondent, slashed his throat, began dictating his will to a policeman, changed his mind halfway through, offered $1,000 for a blood transfusion to save his life, was reported improving...
...Marx family of seven first lived in two rooms of London's shimmy Soho. Father Marx could not write at home. For years he went to the British Museum reading room to work. He had talked much of force, meaning bombs and guns. Henceforth he was busy building a powder magazine of ideas. He had written: "Theory, too, becomes a physical force when it takes possession of the masses." He also observed: "There can be no talk of a real revolution in such a time as this, when general prosperity prevails...
When the first volume of Capital was published (in German) it raised no great storm. It was to do its work later ? in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia, Japan, Latin-America, China. It was not a guidebook for revolutionists. It was the fountainhead of a social current...