Word: defenceless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They seem to be straining every nerve to convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story. But after they have you almost convinced, their deft fingers begin poking around into the defenceless ribs of the plot, and it all ends in roaring farce?a glorious melange of wisdom, wit, suspense, absurdity...
...wonderful knowledge of material forces and used its knowledge to create poisonous gases and destructive bombs and a gun that could carry shells I know not how many miles; but it was so lamentably ignorant of human nature that it thought that it could violate women, enslave men, murder defenceless children, and make war on churches, libraries, and hospitals, in order to destroy a commercial rival, and that the civilized world would look on and see it done with only feeble and meaningless protests...
...head of the Company, and his children; now with the tragic sufferings of the workers and their families; and again with the impassioned appeals of labor agitators before the quarrelling workers, half-erased from starvation and exposure Nothing is settled except that the fortune of the weak and defenceless creates a stronger human appeal than that of the powerful. The extremists on both sides are thrust aside and a compromise is affected...