Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utility ridden state. One is not surprised, therefore, to find Governor Cross relying upon a platitudinous survey of present conditions, and urging a portion, at least, of Mr. John Dewey's theory of educating the electorate. It is scarcely too much to say that Mr. John Dewey's views owe most of their publicity to politicians who are only too glad to remain impervious to the suggestion that those in power exercise control over education, that they realize their advantage, and that they will naturally refuse to disseminate the truth about themselves. It was slightly stupid of Governor Cross...
...cause her to purchase $3,800,000 of bank stock was to force upon her a huge investment with only a 25% margin -hardly, as Mr. Medalie points out, the act of a wise banker or considerate husband. If Mr. Mitchell had not repurchased the stock later, she would owe J. P. Morgan $3,000,000 today and she, as well as he, would today be ruined. Indeed, Mrs. Mitchell did not have sufficient income to pay even the interest on the loan to carry this stock she had "bought" but had not paid...
...sticking out his under lip and singing, he pulls down his upper lip and speaks, in a dry tone, with perfect diction. Chevalier's picture emphasizes the good effects of dissipation; the lesson in the Arliss cinema is about the advantages of sobriety and the respect which children owe their elders. The Working Man, like most Arliss vehicles. has charm as well as respectability; if Mr. Arliss is too definitely of the old school. Bette Davis is certainly of a different school. Good shot: the last one, of Arliss' toes, placed on the gunwale of his fishing boat...
James Joyce: "Nothing could be more true than to say that we all owe a great deal to him. But I, most of all, surely." Ford Madox Ford: "The first word you have to say about them [the Cantos] is: Their extraordinary beauty. And the last word will be: Beauty." Ernest Hemingway: "Any poet born in this century or in the last ten years of the preceding century who can honestly say that he has not been influenced by or learned greatly from the work of Ezra Pound deserves to be pitied rather than rebuked. . . . The best of Pound...
...their acts were culpable. For every evil-looking act listed above they had an explanation which gave the lie to the headlines. Example: all loans made to officers were secured by collateral which was ample at the time. None of the officers have been forgiven their debts. They still owe the money and their collateral is still pledged to the National City Company. The "write-off" consisted merely in getting these frozen loans off the books of the bank and on to the books of the security company. And this was done in the interest of depositors in accordance with...