Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superintendent of the dining halls claims that he must either stand a loss or make a profit, the undergraduate undoubtedly feels that it would suit his stomach better for him to suffer the former. It was admitted that last year the account's of the House dining halls showed a profit; therefore it is too much to expect that the University can at least succeed in breaking even at the end of the present season without either raising the rates or, most dangerous, cheapening the quality...
...system should not be held responsible for the career of the infant prodigy who seems destined to become chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission. It is true that William O. Douglas . . . acquired the rudiments of his education in the public schools of this city, but that does not account for the vagaries of his later life. . . . No, it must have been in the halls of Yale and Columbia that he acquired the idea of becoming a crusader and an irritant to all dealers in stocks and bonds...
...appeared the, following advertisement: "FOR RENT-Notwithstanding we have not tolerated drunks, gambling, nor lewd women since July, 1935, and it is easy to verify that statement, there are people who tell newcomers that the Alamo Hotel is not a suitable place to occupy with their families on that account. That is part of our punishment for tolerating such for the few years we did so. See our apartments and get rates...
Unlike British Major Geoffrey McNeill-Moss's factually authoritative but notably pro-Rebel account of one of the most heroic episodes in Spain's civil war (The Siege of Alcazar; Knopf: $3.50), Sommerfield's book is unpretentious historically, uninsistent politically, is marred only by a too-obvious leaning towards Ernest Hemingway in style. It provides an excellent report of one man's experiences, impressions, in battle, offers in two or three of its episodes descriptions hardly-to-be-forgotten of life in wartime. For these in particular, most readers will find it valuable...
...from his violent disposition make the real play all the more exciting, and the comedy-writer's license takes care of the rest. So we see Gordon Miller, hare-brained producer, catching hold of Leo Davis, rustic playwright, rifling his pockets, pawning his typewriter, putting him to bed on account of measles with tape-worm complications, starving him almost to death and then making him play dead besides, all because nobody has any money and it wouldn't do to be thrown out of the hotel. One of the most startling revelations in the art of welching...