Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paying teller of that bank when he had his first experience with crime. A man came in with a check for $1,000 made out to God Almighty. He pointed a revolver at Davison's head and demanded the money. Davison read the amount aloud, and began to count out the money in a loud voice. Before he had finished, the bank detective had arrested...
Engagement Broken. Miss Louisa Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher, famed Indianapolis banker (Fletcher American National Bank), to Count Ernst Gottfried von Schmettow, Prussian...
...perhaps the millionth time, in the Convent of the Carmelite Sisters, Louvain, Belgium, the bread and wine became sacred elements of the body of Our Lord. The priest-saying his first mass-was Count Claude Delbee, one-time officer in the army of the King of the Belgians. To his former wife, the Countess, he gave the wafer, looked upon her, never to look again...
...Another count against the Commission lies in its inability to reach unanimity of decision. On paper the duties of the Commission are simple enough. The matter is essentially mathematical, and mathematics is an exact science. Production costs at home and abroad having been ascertained by the Commission's experts; comparability becomes a matter of cold statistics, leaving small room for soap-box oratory or division of opinion. Unfortunately, the matter is not so simple. The factors in the equation are undetermined variables rather than constants. . . . Every case bristles with controversial points. It so happens that the more conscience...
Your attempt at phonetics with regard to the pronunciation of Count Skrzynski's name in the July 27 issue of your magazine, Pages 1, 9, 14, perfectly rotten...