Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's Eve, 1932, the Delmars drove from Hollywood to Agua Caliente, lost so much gambling at the Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled...
...stocky Austrian Olympic ace, whose spectacular record-smashing feats have astounded swimming enthusiasts all over the nation, feels that the opportunity he has been offered is too good to refuse, and will start work in Chicago or Atlanta the summer. He will definitely not return to Harvard...
...opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold out his hand for the return quarter, but he takes it, and the cabbie is disgusted. Away in a cloud of gear-teeth he goes. The old gentleman turns in a show half-circle to the big, grey building, a smile on his face. The unpleasantness is over for today. A shame about that quarter...
GENEVA--Informed Fascist quarters indicated tonight that Italy may return to the League of Nations soon as a result of a British note asking that the question recognizing Italy's Ethiopian conquest be put before the League's May 9 council meeting...
...Misericordia. This debate was presented before an audience packed with attractive Misericordia girls and followed by informal dancing with the opposing team. Veteran debaters rated Misericordia speakers above representatives of Radcliffe, Wellesley, and Vassar in poise, charm, and even debating! Arrangements were concluded on the spot for a return debate at Harvard next Fall...