Word: inspectoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation now stands with Sculptor Brancusi paying government duty on his "articles" labeled NOT ART at the prices they fetched as Art. Paul Morand, French writer, said of one of the disputed pieces, "Bird in Flight": "His birds sing and fly through space." Honest Inspector Kracke said, "I was told that the question was controversial. That, of course, made me take the situation all the universe...
...mile record on the Stadium track on May 7. Prior to this he expects to spend two weeks at the University studying Harvard methods of instruction, for his primary purpose in this country, is not to run but to prepare himself for the position of Inspector of Public Schools in Sweden, a post for which he is trying...
...displeasure by knocking out the kingpin of the whole fiscal structure upon which foreign loans to China rest. The structure is the Chinese Maritime Customs Bureau, the duties collected by which are pledged to the repayment of the foreign loans. The kingpin was Sir Francis Arthur Aglen, the Inspector General of Customs, under whom 1,000 foreign customs clerks have worked since his appointment in 1911. Last week Chang dismissed Sir Francis, threatened to replace him and all his foreign clerks with Chinese. If this is done, and "gotten away with," the customs revenues will most certainly be diverted from...
...within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover on a schooner coming up; the Chicago River, a sidewalk inspector with ambition, an alderman whose jokes were understandable, a county treasurer who did not annoy the people, a sheriff-elect who was dying...
...inspector appeared several days ago, according to J. F. Brady, janitor of the dormitory, and examined the clouded corridors, the mauve bed-spreads, and the soot-stained porticos of the dormitory. His attitude was non-committal but he ventured the statement before leaving that ordinances against soft-coal smoke had been seldom enforced since the recurrent coal strikes of the past few winters. He has not been seen since...