Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contesting a Bureau of Internal Revenue claim that he owes $87,893 in additional income taxes and penalties for the years 1933-35, bland, artificial-footed British Cinemactor Herbert Marshall took to the Board of Tax Appeals a number of disputed items. Among them: "Payment of $227.05 to prevent the publication of an unfavorable story...
...their course in order to tell Congress afterwards "I told you so." If there is no slump-the shoe will be on the other foot. Rather than sit back and tell the country to watch Congress ruin it, New Dealers may yet decide to go their own way and claim credit for saving business from the fate to which they claim Congress has doomed...
...full-grown blue whale is about $1,500. Whale oil can be made into glycerin (for high explosives, etc.), oleomargarine, soap, lubricants. England has stored some 80,000 tons of it for war purposes. Partly because the Antarctic is its chief source, Germany, Norway and Argentina recently laid claim to vast segments of that frozen continent, and the U. S. is to send Admiral Byrd thither next October to establish U. S. claims...
...spent a lifetime practising. For some 40 of his 68 years he has been writing a series of historical novels which constitutes a political and sociological record of the German people from Kaiserdom to "folkdom." If there is no Magic Mountain among his collected works, Brother Heinrich might well claim that they form a whole mountain chain with respectable, and occasionally imposing, literary heights...
Long considered an isolated figure in art, an independent who withdrew from the life and thought of his time to paint creepy, imaginary worlds, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is often classed by critics with the 19th-Century romantics; surrealists claim him as a pre-surrealist. In his melancholy youth Redon had tried architecture, sculpture, studying the old masters, imitating the Barbizon landscapists, copying the romantics. As far as he was concerned, nothing seemed to click. Then, one day, in 1875, he found that charcoal was his meat. From charcoal drawings he went on to lithography. It had taken...