Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus begins another exploit of Mr. Holmes: "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone...
...drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours on May 9, 1926. Last week he hinted that his next exploit would be a trip to the South Pole...
...builded upon both. He and his brother Vintila, and brother-in-law Prince Babu Stirbey (intimate of Queen Marie) control the State. They dominate Rumanian banking, oil, manufactures. Their large estates are worked by peasants in a manner all but feudal. Because they have used their power to systematically exploit Rumania, a tide of public indignation periodically rises, and before it M. Bratiano resigns the Premiership, announces that he has "retired," and proceeds to lie in wait...
...very center of the storm of applause still acclaiming the Erskine novels, he has committed nothing than une gaucherie. Before the reader has sipped at "Cleopatra's Diary" he has recalled the merits and defects of "Galahad" and adopted a standard of critical comparison which the latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile, is as distinctive because of her wickedness as Galahad is because of his virture. Erskine shoved Galahad from his pedestral and shook the temple of his shrine to its very foundation. Thomas...
...conduct. The motive of the Syrian saint who lived atop a pillar was one which has commanded the respect of posterity; the reason for the lofty position of his imitator who is fasting atop a New-ark flagpole is also perfectly credible to those who read of his exploit. Saint Simeon was actuated by religious aspirations; the present marvel of Newark is in pursuit of a vaudeville contract...