Word: credititis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French public, which still remain a governmental liability. However, the position of the Bank, which last year was in sore straits, is much improved; for, meantime it has increased its gold reserves to $800,000,000 and holds nearly $1,000,000,000 in foreign currencies, which represents credit transactions made possible by the repatriation of French capital-a sign that confidence has returned to stay...
...Author. Mr. Oppenheim modestly disclaims credit for his so popular work and pretends that he does not aim to please. He says: "I do not know how a novel will develop when I begin it. I get a vision of about two good characters?the man, he's the main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them...
...native of Ann Arbor, a graduate of the University of Michigan; that Miss Kargau went through a Chicago high school; that Miss Mario was trained for opera in San Francisco; that Miss Meusel is the daughter of a Wisconsin traveling salesman-that U.S. readers felt justified in taking credit to themselves in the knowledge that these artists are really U.S. artists and that their presence in the company indicates the gradual emergence of U. S. musical culture from the domination of Europe. On going further, however, their enthusiasm must have been chilled in reading that one of the artists (whose...
...five weeks now since her foster son received a telegram notifying him that she had come to the U. S. to undergo operations that may save her sight. . . . Meanwhile the Manhattan hotel has a bill of $500 hanging over her head. The cafeteria refuses further credit. It is only too evident that the world knows her no longer as Dear Little Buttercup but sees in her broken body only the dust of a withered flower that has been inconveniently blown into its midst...
...Though credit be given for faithful transcription of the novel's main episodes against authentic French backgrounds, there still seems to be no justification for coupling, in the theatre lobby, the photographs of Victor Hugo (author) and Carl Laemmle (head of Universal Pictures Corp...