Word: adds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dispassionate observers could find little to add to these two pronouncements. Taken together, however, they provided much solid food for thought, and an excellent opportunity for congratulating Count Volpi upon his success in apparently pleasing both his major creditors fairly well. The New York Times might scoff: "Both Great Britain and the U. S. gravely assume that our grandchildren will be collecting on the Italian debt. . . . Who lives will see, but it is extremely unlikely that he will see that." And the London Times might grumble: "Reduced to simple mathematical terms, the agreement represents the cancellation of approximately six-sevenths...
...Expressed in dollars, the total Italian payments to Britain add up to $1,323,000,000; whereas Italy has agreed to pay the U. S. a total of $2,407,000,000. Yet next year Britain is to receive $19,440,000 and the U. S. only $5,000.000. Thus "proportionately" Great Britain will receive over seven times as much from Italy next year, as will...
Which inspires me to add this final verse of Somebody Else who took the Owl for the haven of supper clubs and sentient souffies. I think last night, and who really doesn't much care whether...
...York World: "There have been quite enough of such publicity stunts upon the bench. They do not add to the respect and esteem in which courts are held. . . . Hollywood has nothing to teach a court of justice...
...letter of Thomas Slocum and that of Francis Rogers relative to the withdrawal of the Harvard Glee Club from the Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest I add my sincere approval. Properly done and at the proper time, without pretext, it is wholly within the right of each of the component clubs to withdraw from the organization. But to wait till the contest is at hand before signifying such intention can be productive only of disarrangement and of justly unfavorable criticism. The reason given, that the composition selected for uniform competition is "of musical inferiority and real musical worth", strikes my ears...