Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is an account of the two religious sects of the Utopians; one of these sects abstains from meat and also from marriage, the other sect "love the flesh of four-footed beastes, bicause they beleve that by that meat they be made hardier and stronger to woorke. The Utopians counte this secte the wiser, but the other the holier...
...story, titled 55 Minutes from Broadway, was an account of the life and death of Gilbert Pitt, recluse, who had lived for 81 years in a dirt-floored shack in the Ramapo Mountains of New York, 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. Together with his housekeeper, Maggie Gannon, he had passed much of his time avoiding the so-called conveniences of modern society. Last spring, suffering from a heart attack, he waited for the dogwood to bloom; then he died...
Under the auspices of the newly-formed Crimson Key, the stroke-by stroke account of all the day's races, both heats and finals, will be relayed from ship to shore and announced to the audience from the Cambridge side opposite Howard Johnson's. Gerard H. Fisher '49, member of the executive group of the Key, made the announcement last night, explaining that he had just completed arrangements...
Something was left out of the account, however. It is easy to imagine the Henry James so pictured as a mildly comic figure in London drawing rooms, but it is impossible to imagine such an individual writing The Beast in the Jungle or The Altar of the Dead. Author Nowell-Smith has traced through their mutations several of the famous inane or incredibly affected remarks attributed to James, by various writers, pointing to an unmistakable conclusion: they were apocryphal. James was a character. Anecdotes were attributed to him, the way jokes about monosyllabic New Englanders were attributed to Calvin Coolidge...
...told that all had gone well. The star, "with incredible cruelty," led him to the middle of the stage. "For a moment or so James faced the storm, his round face white, his mouth opening and shutting." Then the star dragged him back into the wings. A contemporary account suggested that there had been a cabal against the play, and that the hissing began according to a prearranged signal. Says Author Nowell-Smith: "The problem is perhaps now insoluble...