Word: wrecker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgrade last week, Smartest Little Statesman Benes knew that, as Pertinax said, his visit "bids fair to mark an important turning point in the history of Central Europe." By his mere presence he generated in the Skupshtina (Yugoslav Chamber of Deputies) frantic criticism of Premier Stoyadinovich as a potential wrecker of the Little Entente...
Both poets turned to prose at about the same period, Sandburg writing his colloquial children's tales, Rootabaga Stories, Masters his cycle of thesis novels. Both wrote biographies of Lincoln, Sandburg picturing him as the greatest U. S. hero, Masters seeing him as the wrecker of the Union. Last week these two poets signalized their return to verse with volumes of tributes to the people. Saluting them for different reasons, each had a different crowd in mind...
...Last spring Adolph H. Lubin, wrecker, of Springfield, Ill., paid $25,000 for wrecking privileges at Chicago's Century of Progress, went to work on the Hall of Science. Last week, as steel girders of the Travel and Transport Building crashed. Wrecker Lubin figured he had salvaged lumber, wallboard, steel, electrical hardware, plumbing, other items, with a total value...
...Book (1920) Edgar Lee Masters temporarily abandoned verse, wrote a series of thesis novels intended to demonstrate the spiritual superiority of the pre-indusrial Midwest over that of the present. His hostile biography of Lincoln gave evidence of his increasing concern with nationalism, since it presented Lincoln as the wrecker rather than the savior of the Union...
...efforts to win a divorce from her geol-Edward Everett Horton and Alice Brady, make the most of these occasions. The climax comes when, through a misunderstanding, Mr. Astaire shows up in Miss Rogers' apartment early in the morning as her co-respondent, shortly followed by a professional home-wrecker, a musical and toothy young Italian. Through the combined efforts of the professional and the amateur and a helpful waiter Miss Rogers finally succeeds in freeing herself from her husband and dancing off to happiness with Mr. Astaire...