Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza chose wisely for his first-night opera. L'Amore is short. It could begin late that Manhattan's society folk might entertain leisurely at dinner. It could have long intermissions that they might take account of their neighbors' stock. It was over early that they might have their parties afterward...
...newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's blatantly imperialist Daily Mail, headlined its indignant account of the case...
...Yale Bowl, Ellis ran 85 yards through a Brown team for a touchdown which was one of five. Brown made two, on account of Fogarty's passes, and lost...
...heard Tycoon Melchett's pronouncements on world affairs. As a Tory, he will support Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government in the coming British elections. Students of English politics recalled, however, that his Toryism is of curiously recent vintage. His was the influence and his the bank account which helped the Liberal Lloyd George to power and kept him there. As Sir Alfred Mond, he took the Ministry of Public Works in the first Lloyd George cabinet...
...rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with her); nor for the girl's wild-faun beauty which ruthlessly lures the stepmother's brother, traps his eager senses, torments his touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide...