Word: sink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who know the most history will say that the less definite propaganda of any sort the better. If history is rightly told, wars will probably take a minor place in any event. H. G. Wells in his Outline tried to sink them to their proper level, and succeeded...
...list of fair women flung away, whose names he delighted to drag in the gutter, to besmirch and defame, whenever one of them crossed his path after he had discarded her. . . . The State's Attorney and the Grand Jury of Cook County, Ill., are delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor believes, William Earl Dodge Stokes at the vortex of a veritable whirlpool of crimes, of allegations of brazen corruption and almost unbelievable perjury, all directed at Helen Elwood Stokes, his present wife...
...Conventional, ingenious, inexperienced, Harold was horrified to find that his father's plans for his future included neither a family reunion nor an entry into the paternal cloak and suit business, but that instead his father proposed flinging him into the waters of life to sink or swim alone, assisted by an unlimited income, a corrupt English butler named Drains and a tutor, Paul Moody, of good character but no moral sense...
...petroleum is being produced in excess of the immediate demand, radical legislators are rapidly getting into apparent control of the next Congress, the long-predicted crash of financial Germany is seemingly near at hand. Finally, stock prices - usually a reliable index as to future business conditions-have continued to sink ominously...
...Peter Pendragon, demobilized English ace, acquires the cocaine habit and a lady her friends term " Unlimited Lou " in the same large evening. They marry and proceed to Paris?varying cocaine with heroin when the first begins to pall?and, after a lurid continental honeymoon, return to England and sink into the nethermost hell of the drug-user. From this they are rescued by an extraordinary swami-plus-demigod, yclept King Laions, who removes them to the island of Telepylus?a sort of Marie Correllian Abbey of Theleme?where they are finally made to cure themselves. A gaudy, wholly incredible penny...