Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though they [his partners] were known as partners, their agreements were those of employes. All the capital was owned by J. P. Morgan. His associates were not entitled by contract to any share of the profits, yet I happen to know that he voluntarily shared with them-and liberally-at the end of each year. . . . He made them all wealthy beyond their dreams...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, famed Spanish novelist: "The Italian firm which had contracted to publish my book The Muleteer of the Andes, was purchased recently by a Fascist. He dared not publish in the usual way a book by so prominent an anti-Fascist as myself. But neither did he wish to break my contract and pay me heavy damages. Therefore my book appeared last week with a bright red label stuck on the cover, reading: 'With pain at our heart we publish, in sheer respect for our contract, a new and most amusing book by that anti-Fascist swine...
...contract auction bridge, what is meant by being "vulnerable...
...deceptive fractiousness of the March climate in New England has lured the Vagabond into such indiscretions in the matter of overcoats, that he has contrived to contract one of those annoyingly persistent coughs which characterize Spring. He is endeavoring, however, by the use of lotions and liniments to subdue the ailment before the first Dowse lecture on Monday evening. Since Professor Kittredge is giving the series this year, the Vagabond will go to Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock thoroughly equipped with cough drops, knowing the aversion of the erudite professor to the noisy accompaniment of a spring cold...
...What do I think of marriage? That it is a necessary institution, a contract to be entered into between a man and a woman for the good of the State, and for that reason it should never be dissolved, so long as they both live...