Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made executor of the estate and some time later several checks were sent me. . . . I had no choice. I signed the checks and turned them into the estate. At any rate, the sum was small. I think those two checks which were returned represented a fourth of the sum. . . . While it is true that, ultimately, I might benefit when the estate is settled, I had no choice as executor. After the act was invalidated, however, I felt that, since I held against the law, the checks should be returned...
...every chancellery in Europe, he spent about 300 nights a year on trains. He never took a sleeping car, and intimates insisted that he never slept at all. He would lock himself in a compartment every night, dictate furiously to his four secretaries. He always stopped at third-rate hotels but insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted an interview with Dr. Berliner, had to catch him en route to the railroad station. Somewhere in his numerous locked brief cases Austria's insurance Napoleon...
Florenz Ziegfeld did some first-rate glorifying in his long and spectacular career as producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
...this reviewer that nobody could be convicted of murder unless the body had been definitely identified or could be produced. Inasmuch as the state is unable to prove that the corpse was Faulkner's we don't exactly see how the jury could convict Miss Andre. At any rate the dialogue is well written and the play is constructed with a reasonably sure touch. The humor is of the predictable type and not particularly annoying...
...return to the original point, we tend to lean toward the Music Department and their suspicions--and at any rate we should certainly shudder at the thought of several dozen tons of metal shimmying overhead in their makeshift moorings...