Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tendency to become unproductive of revenue, is not confined to the very highest surtax rates. The tendency is characteristic of all the surtax classes where the rate is high enough to induce evasion of the burden by investment in tax-exempt securities and availing of other methods of avoiding payment of the higher rates. The following table, which, while not official, is compiled from the official Statistics of Income published by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, shows clearly the dwindling of taxable incomes of $100,000 a year or more, and the tax derived from them. *Percent *Percent *Percent...
...mystery. Critics have said that this novel, written when she has passed her seventy-fifth birthday is one of her best, that it returns to the manner and method of The Leavenworth Case, was better than The Filigree Ball or The House of the Whispering Pines. At any rate, soon after publication, it was found on the best-seller lists...
Pride. The French, one remembers, are a gay and polite people, fond of dancing and light wines. Perhaps if they saw more of the English and American plays that are written about them they would be neither so polite nor so gay. At any rate, in most American drama, the French male character who is old enough to have a crêpe-beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet...
...Mendelssohn work, but the solo parts were really sung solo and by artists of note. A gathering of dignitaries celebrated the occasion. The Bach masterpiece is enormously difficult with its intricate weaving of voices in the manner of the old ecclesiastical polyphony. It is likewise immensely fine. Some critics rate it as Bach's greatest work. Others call it the greatest Mass ever written, with Beethoven's Mass in D as the only possible disputant for the honor, which leads to the interesting and meaningful consideration that what is possibly the highest piece of Roman liturgical music...
Here are the cold, commercial facts on every play in New York- how much money each made or lost last week-whether you should buy your seats for them at the agency, the box-office or the cut-rate ticket place. Here is the entire, gigantic amusement business of America, seen from within-births, marriages, divorces, deaths-its laughter and sorrows-its successes and failures-down in print...