Word: owing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Packard writes, "Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe, which is what they always pretend they are doing." Certain State's of the Union are keeping very quiet, but make no pretense of paying what they owe to Great Britain...
Sirs: What I don't like about England, since Mr. Sydney Walton of London wants to know, is the way every Englishman gets around sooner or later to saying: "Now about these War debts. We're perfectly willing to cancel what the Italians and French owe us. Why don't you Americans join us in canceling War debts all round? Let's all forget the War!" I have told them over and over that since France and Italy owe them and they owe us, the only result of "canceling debts all round" would be to leave...
...impossible to gain general acceptance of any definite figure in respect to any of the huge sums involved. But the Young Memorandum, secret, was understood to lay down as fixed beyond all need of further dickering this principle: Germany will pay the Allies not less than the total they owe the United States in War debts-namely...
...Catholic Church is not a national church, but a universal society and to the head of that society men of all nationalities owe the same spiritual allegiance. . . . That certain nationalistic groups (in the U. S.) continually attempt to make him a 'foreign potentate' is a proof of the necessity that the universal, supernatural, and supranational character of his office be clearly recognized. . . . "No earthly recognition can add to the divine commission of the Papacy. The independent sovereignty which is rightfully hers and which has finally been restored to the Church will but evidence to the world the supernatural...
Aside from your public obligation to serve on this jury, you owe it to yourself to see one of the best productions that Boston has harbored for a long time. "The Trial of Mary Dugan" is originally and cleverly conceived, ably written, and excellently staged and acted. More can rarely be said for a play in these days of dramatic vicissitudes when it takes more than a ladder to mount the heights of popular success...