Word: derelicts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Trials. On Aug. 8 at Riom, a quaint, forgotten town in Auvergne with grass-grown streets and stately derelict mansions, a new Supreme Court of Justice created by a Petain decree will convene "to search for and judge ... all those . . . who have during an undefined time committed crimes or misdemeanors or betrayed duties in their charge by acts that led to the passage from the state of peace to a state of war . . . and by acts which thereafter aggravated the consequences of the situation thus created." The Court, composed of five prominent French jurists, an admiral and a general...
...that time, however, the British Government was beginning to take a hand in British industry with a view to its social and military uses. Sir William was asked to locate his mill at Ebbw Vale in South Wales, a derelict steel'district where new jobs were acutely needed. Partly because of the higher cost of building at Ebbw Vale, and partly because of the 1938 recession, Richard Thomas & Co.'s funds ran out two years ago, before the mill was ready. Sir William accepted a ?6,000,000 loan from the Bank of England. In return for this...
...basement clinic at Our Lady of Good Help he brought many another derelict...
...sport and obsessive ideas: were not other countries keeping her in perpetual unrest, she would in a couple of generations be converted to pederasty. . . ." Most of all he deplores what he sees in Ingeborg Torsen, a fine young woman who, thanks to her feminist education, has become a sexual derelict, disconsolately out for what she can get. She manages inadvertently to cause a murder; she is bound, for a while, to a dismal little actor who lives off her. Subtly, she is interested in the old man; uneasily, he is drawn to her. During the next year...