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...young physician, one Dr. David Gloyd, was boarding at the Kansas home of one George Moore. Attracted by Mr. Moore's daughter Carrie, then 19, Dr. Gloyd, taking her by surprise, grasped and kissed her. Thereupon Carrie burst into tears, put her hands over her eyes, cried out: "I am ruined! I am ruined!" Rising to the requirements of the situation, Dr. Gloyd became Carrie's husband. Shortly after, he developed into a confirmed alcoholic, went to a "drunkard's grave...
...large safes in the basement proved too much for the police. Soon workmen with safeblowing apparatus arrived. Pneumatic drills were featured in their technique, and all the next day a purring t-t-tat-tat-tat-t-t was heard in Moorgate street. Finally the safes were burst open, more trucks backed up, more papers were trundled away...
...would. . . . His power as President of the Reichsbank, backed by the possibility of Government-sponsored legislation, was not to be thwarted. Soon the banks announced "voluntarily" an arbitrary reduction of all loans to market operators of 25%, with further progressive reductions to follow. Like a pricked bubble, the market burst. The average decline of all stocks was 45 points. Glazed textiles, quoted on the former bull market at seven times their par, tobogganed almost instantly 150 points. On the other great German stock exchanges in Frankfort, Hamburg, Cologne, etc., the collapse was, of course, equally terrific...
...mound which has witnessed so many of his former disastrous attempts to practice the mysterious art of twirling a horse hide pellet. For eight innings CRIMSON runners could make no progress on the sodden base paths of the Soldiers Field diamond. Then the storm broke. CRIMSON fury burst forth with all the tremendous energy of a roused Titan tearing in shreds the bond cast about him by the hands of a pigmy tribe. It even went back and gathered force from the disappointing (though courteous) tie played with the Princetonian cohorts some week or more...
...plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...