Word: credititis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...Howard: "The plain truth of the matter, plus a sportsmanlike desire to give credit where credit is due, compels the frank admission that after having been afforded two years' opportunity to judge of a result which had involved the employment of much ingenuity and the expenditure of several million dollars, an overwhelming majority of the people of Denver and the adjacent newspaper field continued their preference for the type of evening paper produced by F. G. Bonfils in the Evening Post, rather than for the type offered by Scripps-Howard in the Evening News. ... On the other hand...
...Republican candidate takes the credit for everything that has happened in this country that is any good to anybody. . . . Why, he even spoke about the increased number of children in the public schools. The Republican Party was not responsible for that. Thanks be to God, everybody had a hand in doing that. In my time I did my share...
Observers recalled that in Paris, London and Berlin King Amanullah purchased lavishly on his Royal credit and then sent the bills to the Governments whose guest he was. Since Afghanistan is a land of promising markets for European goods, the bills were paid...
...preference "unofficial," and therefore inconspicuous to the general public. The publication of the first two volumes of his papers, indicating as they did his tremendous importance as adviser and negotiator, was therefore a surprise to the uninitiated, a gripe to the prejudiced. They accused House of taking too much credit to himself, thereby belittling Wilson. But if he takes co-credit, on the face of it he takes co-blame for the numerous mistakes that go up to make that tragedy of errors...