Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is plenty of pleasant nonsense, sustained from the verses on the first page through the burlesque accounts of the extraordinary exploits of Colonel (and Captain) Sir Harry Hard Sauce. But unfortunately this nonsense is frequently diffuse and inconsequent--the story of the Golden Girl's transoceanic flight would profit, for example, if there were in it less wandering of the fancy and more satiric thrusts. It is, moreover, a pity that L. C. Jones' bold and effective drawings cannot be provided with better text than that found on page 225. Sill in spite of occasional flatnesses, the general average...
...There is a goodly scattering of squibs worth repeating, and there are verses which have distinct merit. One finds, in short, plenty of evidence that the editors have a talent for making humor prevail, a sense of values, and the wish to carry on an enviable tradition. They would profit most, perhaps, by more widespread and varied co-operation--there are evidences that the burden of this issue has fallen heavily up on two or three. And such co-operation the College ought surely be able to furnish with cheerful case...
Besides providing these addenda to earth's natural equipment, the I. T. & T. stockholders provided for their own profit and comfort by re-electing directors who have supported President Sosthenes Behn in his amazing expansion of the business. Many financially conscious persons noted for the first time that two of the company's directors are Spaniards, one count, one marques...
...author has limited his study of Hardy's work. His selection merits praise; and the book is of superlative profit to the reader who is familiar with Hardy's writings. The volume contains numerous quotations from the novels and poems discussed. This device is happy, for Hardy stands forth as his own witness, admirably aided by the pertinent comments and keen criticism of Mr. Braybrooke, who reveals a deep sympathy and understanding...
...years later, during an investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau by a Couzens-headed committee of the Senate, Senator Couzens was notified that his profit-tax payment of 1919 had been far from adequate; please to pay some $10,000,000 more. Senator Couzens charged that some one in the Treasury Department had been told to look up his back tax returns and see if anything could be "gotten on him." But the Treasury Department denied this and said that the 1919 Ford stock profit item had been called to its attention by a letter-writer. The Treasury said that...