Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would like to call attention to the fact that whatever is paid by way of customs duties is deductible from income tax. My income tax for the year 1928 will be (as it has for many years been and would be if I had no income for the balance of the year) very many times $900 and many times $5,251. Mrs. Steuer's income tax, separately payable by her upon her income, amounts to many times $900 and a number of times...
...armed, especially France. But Germany is not completely disarmed.** She has 100,000 men, and what men! Fine men−officers and non-commissioned officers−and behind them enormous numbers who have shown in the late War what heroes they were. You cannot say that if another call to arms sounded they would not, for eight or ten years at least, be ready to come forward and fight...
Very placid is the river Housatonic as it winds through the Berkshire valleys. So even, so quiet is its flow that it is easily able to mirror the gentle, green elevations of ground which the Berkshire dwellers call hills, and which enthusiastic tourists like to call mountains. As gentle as the hills, as placid as the river, the Berkshire villages rise to break the pleasant monotony of the landscape. Their generous houses, most white and clean, front on broad streets with here and there a stretch of New England common. Their lawns slope gracefully to the languid river. Such...
Rara avis....what he would call "all interesting piece of neckwear" piece of neckwear" flows.... sport shirt.... loose coat as liable not to match the lower half.... cigarette holder...corner of handkerchief protruding from lower coat pocket.... the eye goes down the full length and then back up, finally resting where it began, on the long locks in pompadour, slightly out of alignment...
Action thenceforth is rapid, confusingly quick compared with the lagging up to that time. The director seemed as willing as the audience to call a halt. The cinema has been adapted from Zane Grey's piece identically named...