Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are various accounts of the origin of this "Where's Elmer?" of the 1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
...became Anglican chaplain of Trinity College. Converted to Catholicism before the War, he was ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast a lurid account of a revolution in London, complete with Big Ben Tower blown up, the National Gallery ablaze. Famed at Oxford is "Ronnie" Knox's reply to a fellow-undergraduate who wrote the Hegelian limerick...
...famed "wrong way" flight to Ireland last July. Unlike most samples of its genre, it succeeds in being an unusually likable and honest little picture, for Corrigan is one of the worst actors who ever appeared on the screen. Indeed, cast as himself in a reasonably factual account of his own extraordinarily humdrum career, Corrigan does...
This melodramatic, smoldering story is the background of Robert Penn Warren's Night Rider. Nobody agrees about the real Tobacco War. But there is no ambiguity in Warren's vivid account of it. Vigorous, lyrical, balanced, it portrays the actors of that little-known ruckus...
Chiefly interesting for their light on Morris' much-maligned business and political activities in France, the diaries are also notable for their account of the Terror, their Pepysian observations on political and social intrigue among the French upper crust. Even his enemies might enjoy Gouverneur Morris' formal candor in describing his tempestuous affair with the Comtesse de Flauhaut ("As I am heavy and plagued with a Head Ache Madame will not let me give her Pleasure, as it may injure my Health. This is Kind...