Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuing possibility of actions by litigious persons leaves open the continuing possibility of speculation. There is no public interest, under these conditions, in permitting a handful of private litigants to exploit the general public in the hope of a wholly speculative private profit...
...Manhattan, reporters gathered on a dock to meet a tall, grey-haired young woman who, if she had been in the field at Newcastle, would certainly have won the tournament. She was Joyce Wethered, greatest woman golfer in the world, arriving to play a series of exhibition matches to exploit Wanamaker's golf supplies. At the Women's National Golf & Tennis Club, Miss Wethered proved that she was thoroughly off her game by shooting a 78, which gave her and Johnny Dawson an 18-hole match-play tie against Gene Sarazen and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Two days...
Died. Edward Herbert Thompson, 74, pioneer explorer of Mayan sites in Yucatan; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. U. S. consul from 1885 to 1909, he found Yucatan's long-sought "Hidden City," a high priest's mausoleum, a temple, the "Maya Venus." His most famed exploit: exploring a holy well (limestone sinkhole) into which Mayans had hurled sacrifices. Diving in 80 ft. of water and mud, he brought up skeletons of girls, ornaments of jade, gold, copper, ebony...
...nothing startlingly new about the Star's war pictures. A far more gruesome series was published last year. Up-&-coming, the Star had also printed the story of Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans as a British spy, and Dickens' Life of Christ. The latest Star exploit prompted irreverent newshawks in Toronto to revive a verse privately circulated last year to poke fun at the Star's Publisher Joseph Edward Atkinson, his son-in-law and vice president Harry Hindmarsh, his one-armed Editor Vernon Knowles. Composed by two members of Toronto's Writers Club...
...story in a good detailed biography.* Many a writer has made Chopin seem doomed from boyhood. According to Pianist Murdoch, his early days were easy compared to those of most composers. His parents were not rich but neither were they poor. They realized his genius but they refused to exploit him. Trouble developed after he attempted to make his own way in the world. Audiences were accustomed, then, to pianists who pounded in heavy Germanic fashion. Chopin's style was delicate and subtle, more suited to his own music than to the Titans he sometimes tried to interpret. Vienna...