Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next Index will certainly list it. For Mencken, "quite devoid of the religious impulse," makes of religion his unholy hobby, traces its history with ingenuity, learning, logic, comes to the conclusion that Christianity is on the decline, is glad of his conclusion. Says Mencken: "Everything that we are we owe to Satan and his bootleg apples...
...pollute the pages of TIME with news of decorations accepted from foreign Governments by men and women who are citizens of the United States and owe their sole loyalty to our country...
...close relative, another a dear friend, who have received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Without exception they have gotten to be Francophile. They have warmed up from cold or luke warm to hot in shouting that we oughtn't to collect from France what they certainly owe us! You know the men I mean-such as Myron Timothy Herrick. If Kaiser Wilhelm had given him the Iron Cross and if he had become as pro-German as he became pro-French, only Heaven knows what might have happened...
First in the stockholders' minds was the question as to what relationship there might be between the present Fox difficulties and Roxy Theatre. All through the meeting stockholders kept shouting remarks relative to this. To the question "How much money does Fox owe the theatre?" "Roxy" replied "Not a red cent," and then added that he intends to coöperate with Cineman William Fox to the best of his ability. To the pointed query of how much Fox makes "Roxy" pay for pictures, Chairman Saul Rogers explained that the theatre pays a percentage of box office receipts: "Right...
...Indians stopped buying, Great Britain would lose more than one-eighth of her export sales, and that, if Indians stopped paying taxes, the people of Great Britain could not by any possibility make up the deficiency necessary to maintain themselves as a great power and still pay what they owe the U. S. in War debts. Because previous Indian boycotts have always broken down, British statesmen were anxious rather than frightened last week, calmly faced the probability that before "nonviolent non-coöperation" has gotten very far there will be enough casual rioting and bloodshed to justify the reimprisonment...