Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George's Channel to the Marquess of Londonderry's house at Mount Stewart. County Down, Northern Ireland. In Ireland observers leaped to the conclusion that he was there to hold a series of secret meetings with de Valera representatives on the annuities problem. Some added an additional detail: Scot MacDonald's trip to Ireland was at the request of delegates to the Ottawa conference (see p. 12) who are restless for an early solution. All these stories Scot MacDonald went to great lengths to deny...
...Street, novel and cinema, is based on the potent appeal of a character who humbly takes a prolonged beating from the world and the other characters. The situation of the heroine is socially, morally, economically and emotionally improbable, but genuinely affecting. Director John M. Stahl has elaborated the period detail of pre-War Cincinnati and Manhattan nearly as painstakingly as did Author Hurst. Examples: The high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings...
Every association [national bank] shall make to the Comptroller of the Currency not less than three reports during each year. . . . Each such report shall exhibit in detail under appropriate heads, the resources and liabilities . . . at the close of business on any past day by him specified; and shall be transmitted to the Comptroller within five days after the receipt of a . . . requisition therefor from him . . . and shall be published in a newspaper. . . .-National Bank...
Curious onlookers and a special detail of police watched the B. E. F. drill, wondering if the new regime would stiffen or crack the B. E. F.'s morale, wondering why the men hung on anyhow, hoping for an impossible cash Bonus settlement from a Congress which had already denied it. Characteristic of the whole perverse, stolid affair was the new camp watchword: "Stick...
...competent portrayer of Dutch domestic scenes (The Rebel Generation, The House of Joy), Authoress van Ammers-Küller in her latest novel gives an account of life in her native Delft early in the 20th Century. Beginning her tale with something of the ordered, crystalline detail of Dutch interior paintings, she ends it in cloudy emotional confusion and disillusionment...