Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What I wanted to make clear," writes Quinn, "is the false pretense of this man as to his Harvard connections...
When Walter O'Hara was 23 he was not in Harvard; he was in Fall River . . . and he was a married man--married to a lady who later divorced him on the grounds of cruel and abusive treatment. But that is another story. What I wanted to make clear is the false protense of this man as to his Harvard connections...
...genial, red-faced Sales Manager William F. Hufstader, Buick dealers buy their cars direct from the factory at 25% below retail prices, a practice standard in the industry. Thus a $1,000 car costs a dealer $750. Out of the $250 difference a dealer must pay his overhead and clear a profit. So far this year Buick dealers, according to Bill Hufstader, have netted twice as much money as last. Makers are cagey about mentioning dealer profits, but Buick dealers probably average about $78 net for every $1,000 in sales, not counting a 20% reserve for used car losses...
Tate. "As a poet, I have never had any experience . . . as a poet, my concern is the experience that I hope the reader will have in reading the poem. The poet as seer who experiences life in behalf of the population is a picture that is not clear in my mind, but it is an interesting picture; it happens to be one with which I have no sympathy at all." So does Poet Allen Tate of Tennessee, with a schoolmasterish delight in heckling his audience, conclude the preface to his Selected Poems. These poems, true to their foreword, dish...
Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. In this subtly cockeyed novel so much is clear from the start. And his master, Sir John, was the son of a courtly rake whose adventures in the Edwardian era had burdened a number of titled matrons with offspring of discreetly doubtful parentage. One of the doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also...