Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case is one of contract law, in which the plaintiff, one Emil Borah, is suing one Nathaniel P. Banks et al. for debts. Bank et al. are members of a business or "Massachusetts" trust, which includes in its constitution some of the features of a partnership and some of those pertaining to a corporation. Borah, who has made a contract with the company, is suing the individual members of the trust for the money involved, and the point to be argued is whether he can collect from the individual members of the company. This case is of timely interest...
...given in a month or six weeks; if a larger number is received, a proportionately longer time will be needed. Immediately after the decision, the Prize of $500 will be paid to the author of the successful play. This payment will not be in lieu of any royalties. As contract with the author guaranteeing a production of the play within six months of its acceptance, will be given the successful competitors at the time of the payment of the Prize...
...form will be the minimum dramatic contract adopted by the Authors League of America and the Producing Managers Association. Under it royalties will be five percent on the first $5000 gross weekly receipts, seven and one half percent on the next $2500, and ten percent on anything above...
Anyone-intending to compete may obtain a copy of the prize contract or other needed information at the office of the 47 Workshop, Massachusetts Hall...
...Ships Darwin the Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Ronsard, all Crabbe the Lowes and fishes...