Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unheralded, Count Rilski arrived in London, took the famed Scottish Express north. At Balmoral, Scottish home of King George† and Queen Mary, he descended from the carriage, again King Boris of Bulgaria. For the first time since the War, the British sovereigns entertained the monarch of a onetime enemy state...
...days later, after some good grouse shooting over Scottish moors, King Boris became Count Rilski, returned to London. Arriving there, he took a taxi to his hotel, paid a visit to the legation, which did not even know that he was in England. Then it became known that the incognito monarch was much more interested in collecting butterflies for his remarkable collection in Sofia-a collection given to him by "Foxy" Ferdinand, onetime (1908-18) King of Bulgaria-than he was in discovering a royal bride. And next in his interests were motor cars and steam locomotives, of both...
Cost. When the Japanese came to count the cost of the awful visitation of the elements, they found 719 persons had been killed, 2,313 injured; 850 houses had been destroyed, 3,000 flooded, many of them floating away with their inhabitants astride the roofs; 37 vessels had been dashed from their moorings and ten miles of dikes had been washed away...
...Monte Munn, onetime Nebraska legislator, onetime wrestler, whose alma, mater is the University of Nebraska. Messrs. Godfrey & Munn were scheduled to fight twelve rounds. The referee checked the proceedings in the fourth, out of sympathy for Mr. Munn. He had been knocked flat in the third for the count of nine; was tired, bloody, outclassed...
...tape, it is to be feared, has entered into the Bureau to such an extent that the individual, his rights and interests, has ceased to count: filing systems, ever more elaborate, even to the point of completely baffling the office force; questionnaires, ever more personal, so much so that the applicant for work must write home before he can proceed intelligently; ever increasing routine, requiring reports and whatnot, under dire threat of being blacklisted at the Bureau. The tyranny of so-called efficiency has reached new heights this fall with the requirement that applicants file pictures of themselves...