Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Oct. 19, p. 30, there was an item in regard to President Garfield of Williams College having persuaded the fraternities to abandon their fall houseparties...
...would not refer to this item, were it not that my entirely unselfish desire to help a most worthy international good-will cause was indirectly responsible for the insertion of the original advertisement, the exact wording of which I did not see until after it was printed. The philanthropic Honorary Secretary of that worthy cause had suggested to me that much help for its needed funds could be obtained if I would deliver some public addresses in its favor. I replied that, while I could not appropriately do that, I would gladly contribute the proceeds of honorariums which might...
...unusual item on First National Bank of Boston's showed "Agreements to Repurchase United States Government Securities . . . $5,300,000." This did not mean the bank was short of bonds, but that it had sold them to another bank agreeing to buy them back, probably within 30 days. The transaction was in the nature of borrowing except that the selling bank receives 100% on the bonds' value, probably paid a lower-than-market interest charge. Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. (Chicago) printed its imposing list of 49 directors beneath its statement in newspapers. With resources...
Stubbornly, insistently President Alcala Zamora of newly Republican Spain has pressed Pope Pius XI to withdraw Spain's die-hard Royalist Primate. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo (TIME, June 29). In Vatican City last week this long, silent diplomatic struggle ended with a decorous item in Osservatore Romano, Papal daily...
...catalog's scheme is ingenious. Two introductory poems set the stage, the scene: "... a shabby backdrop of bright stars: one of the small interstices of time." Then the itemized catalogs begin. First, The Costumes ("Item: a pair of infant's socks two inches long . . . Item: long trousers . . . Item: a tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine...