Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mogul v. Cadet. At the moment, the "Presidency" of China is a matter of insignificance in a land so torn by anarchy that only the military are of account. Last week the Pekingese War Lord Chang Tso-lin, temperamentally a cruel, picturesque, luxurious "Great Mogul" began his expected offensive against the Cantonese (TIME, Dec. 6), by issuing a statement shrewdly designed to win Occidental sympathy: "I am fighting not only in behalf of China, but in behalf of the World. ... The menace of Bolshevism is a world menace and the Cantonese are Bolsheviks. . . . Whether I win or lose is personally...
...high-voltage onetime Lady Macbeth in the late James K. Hackett's Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage. As a matter of principle, Carrie at length enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe...
...There would be no danger of the game being called on account of darkness...
...interiene with the other either in the quantity of time consumed, or in the quality of work. Lacking any one of the four types of organization, it seems to me that a one-sided life may ensue and it is largely because the curriculum has failed to take into account this possibility of correlation, that non-academic life has come to occupy the greater part of the waking hours of the undergraduate student...
...such examples portray the absence of that minimum of labor and keenness that should typity a reporter. But more, they could not have been made by one with some conception of judicial procedure and current events. To such a person, with only the elements of a technical training, the account would have smacked more of adventures in a Lewis Carroll wonderland than of something real and vital in this little world of ours. --J. M. Landis...