Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent week's purchases ranged from selected orations of Cicero through a history of American arbitration, a treatise on the structure of postwar prices, the official U.S. Army and Air Force register, to an account of the jurisdictional disputes in the motion picture industry...
...Sometimes I get sore at TIME for passing up a suggested story or condensing my long account to a few lines. Then I remind myself that TIME culls the world for the news while I just cull Cuba. And I see in the final product the tempering effect of the editor who isn't swept too far one way or the other by being too close to the scene...
Kathleen asked for an annulment, an accounting of $116,327 which she said was her share of a joint bank account, $500 weekly alimony, $10,000 counsel fees. Artie answered right back with 28 pages of tart countersuit. Kathleen, he charged, had refused to bear children ("Children have always enslaved women") and had even suggested an operation which, as the N.Y. Daily News gleefully phrased it, would have made him "forever sterile." Artie, who is quoted by Kathleen's lawyer as stating that "any woman who has enough money and still expects her husband to support her is nothing...
...crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...
Filed Out. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., Plate Umpire Donahue glared disgustedly at the obscuring clouds of insects swarming around the arc lights, suspended the night game on account of "eel flies...