Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors have secured an imposing list of talent to enrich their little brain child. There are bawdy cartoons by the leading New Yorker and Esquire artists, articles by Philip Wylie, Rex Stout, and poems by William Rose Benet, Leonard Bacon and Ogden Nash; and one act plays by Hervey Allen and Marc Connelly. The subject matter runs the gamut of the privy and bedroom school of expression...
Post-game entertainment in the form of three House dances will enrich the weekend for Harvard and Yale epicures as Adams, Eliot, and Lowell Houses offer diversion for participants in the general celebration...
...Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work was turned in by one Madame Pavlenko, a big earthy contralto who stepped to the footlights, closed her eyes, intoned the Gretchanmoff Credo with rare devotional fervor...
...utter social insanity, and was a crazy war, and we had no business in it at all. . . . Senators, the time has come to put an end to that sort of hellborn business if we wish to preserve the Republic. I do not want my boy- to die to further enrich some American millionaire...
...House bill was estimated to yield $255,000,000; the Senate bill $254,000,000. Compromising on most features, but junking completely the House's inheritance tax and the Senate's Borah and McCarran amendments, the conferees early this week reached agreements on a bill expected to enrich the Treasury by $250,000,000. Boosted sharply were individual income surtaxes, beginning at 31% on $50,000 and reaching 75% on amounts over $5,000,000. Corporation income taxes graded up from 127% on amounts under $2,000 to 15% on those over $40.000. Corporation excess profits taxes were...