Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion piece to "We Live on Relief" in April Scribner's there is an article by an anonymous woman writer entitled "Does the World Owe Me a Living?" More than a description of how the other half lives this article is a revelation of a mode of thinking unknown by those happy with luxuries and oblivious to the sufferings of persons condemned to poverty through no fault of their...
...private impurity of the advertising craftsman; he is more interested in beauty than he is in selling. For him the advertisement is a thing-in-itself." Advertising ("the Business Nobody Knows"), says Rorty, is not confined to the agencies but includes newspapers, magazines, radio, all businesses which owe their living to advertising revenue. The Saturday Evening Post "may or may not consider itself primarily an advertising medium; it is so regarded by the advertiser and his agent. ... If the press were or could be a disinterested educational instrumentality it might be expected to correct the miseducation sponsored by its advertisers...
...sedately written narrative is spiced with many a quaint excerpt from the original chronicles, maps and reproductions of old engravings, tid bits of curious information. Sir Percy manifests the complacent chauvinism of the typical hardy, wayfaring Briton, speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus although he gives the Dutchman Willem Janszoon credit for discovering Australia in 1605, he spends more time with James Cook who sailed intrepidly jp the east coast of the continent and won it for England. Yet he admires great...
...have been that they should not pay, I think the payments would have been made. These debts were adjusted years ago. Heavy reductions were made. France received something like a fifty per cent reduction, Italy something like 70 per cent. These debts are due. And, either the nations which owe them will have to pay them or the American tax-payer will have to pay them...
Double Door (Paramount), one of last year's stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...