Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from the ledger where the black blot was spreading; down to the harbor he went, took ship, sailed off in the dawn, Partner Parton with him. That was long ago; nobody knows what became of him; only Jervaile was left to tell the story...
...Americans do not mix business with sentiment. They do not admit that balance sheets can be established with blood and ink, that a balance can be established between ledger columns with, on the one hand, gold ingots and, on the other hand, corpses...
Packed was the Opera House; high were the piles of green and yellow paper in the boxoffice. But clerks surveyed these piles with mingled feelings, remembering that in Chicago is a large ledger with records that the expenditures of the Chicago Opera were, this year, about $400,000 less than its earnings...
...press, last week, readers found among the news- papers publishing crossword puzzles: The Washington Post, The Atlanta Constitution, The Kansas City Star, The Detroit Free Press, The Omaha Bee, The Chicago Tribune, The Buffalo Evening News, The Cleveland Press, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Philadelphia Ledger, The Minneapolis Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Transcript and nine Manhattan dailies...
...first work was published in The New York Ledger when she was 14. Among her subsequent titles are: Lovers Once but Strangers Now, That Pretty Young Girl, Miss Middleton's Lover, which was dramatized as Parted on Her Bridal Tour, A Forbidden Marriage, Olive's Courtship, When His Love Grew Cold...