Word: bleaknesses
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...costly campaign of national defense, he could see no likelihood of military expenses declining in the next year or two, every chance that taxes would soon mount to five shillings in the pound. Wailed Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, coal & iron tycoon: "The British Taxpayer is back in Bleak House...
...Announcing his budget two years ago, Chancellor Chamberlain had quipped: "Great Britain has now finished Bleak House and is sitting down to enjoy the first chapter of Great Expectations" (TIME, April...
Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, a high-strung Mohammedan with a natural flair for obstetrics, won his brilliant academic way to Edinburgh in 1927 and in this dingy grey and bleak seat of Scottish learning seduced a waitress by the name of Isabella Van Hess. Student Ratanji was then using the name "Gabriel Hakin," but on marrying his waitress he proceeded to become legally "Buck Ruxton." Soon, as Dr. Ruxton, he became a popular and prosperous gynecologist who delivered hundreds of well-to-do Lancaster mothers and had last week a fine snug house in Dalton Square...
...hired by Warner Bros. At 21, she was already a star in her own right when she played, in The Sea Beast with John Barrymore. After one more picture together. When a Man Loves, they were married. Dolores went to live in the Barrymore mansion, Bella Vista, on a bleak crest over Beverly Hills, taking her place among the Barrymore trophies of field & stream, the Barrymore whimsicalities and the Barrymore dinosaur egg obtained from Roy Chapman Andrews. She laughed at her husband's epigrams, tolerated his sycophants, condoned his escapades, bore him Dolores (5), John...
...whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...