Word: paid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state representative. Before the campaign, Beardsley was little known outside his home county, where he runs a drugstore at New Virginia (pop. 450) and manages his 900-acre farm. Burly (5 ft. 10½ in., 200 Ibs.) Bill Beardsley got around to picnics and rallies all over the state, paid no attention to the professional politicos. Most Iowans liked his record in the legislature. He had fought the governor on school legislation, had opposed Blue's stringent labor laws. When the returns came in, Bill Beardsley was the busiest man in Iowa. He was back of his soda fountain...
Actually the reparations cuts were more nearly a political gesture than an act of generosity. Originally reparations to be paid by each country had been fixed at $300,000,000. In goods, services and occupation costs, the Soviet Union had already taken over three times that amount from Rumania. In Hungary, through seizure of so-called German assets and a system of joint Hungarian-Soviet companies, the Soviet control of Hungary"? economy had become so complete that further reparations payments would, in effect, mean that the Soviet Union was exacting war damages from itself...
When Maria Barrientos died in 1946, her wealthy porteño friends paid for Maria Helena's lessons with Luis Ricci, who had once been at La Scala...
...Nashville, Alvin C. York, No. 1 U.S. hero of World War I, went to court to get back $7,454.44 in income taxes he had paid early in World War II. He had discovered, said he, that his life story (which he sold to the movies for $50,000) was a capital asset...
...neatly observed the small, telling details of social manners that weightier novelists often pass by. Her special gift is sketching, snippily but without too much malice, the idiosyncratic types that seem still to populate the English countryside as in the days of Jane Austen. (This gift has paid off well; three of her novels have been chosen as monthly selections by the Book-of-the-Month Club...