Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...income tax, especially in the higher brackets, with severe fines for tax dodgers. 6) A tax of 8% on household goods and personal property valued in excess of 50,000 francs ($2,000) payable in a lump sum or in installments over 14 years.† A detailed and extensive sketch envisioned the proposed Sinking Fund as functioning separately from the regular fiscal machinery of the Government; and a clause was inserted to the effect that its administrators or the Finance Minister should be permitted to resort to a limited inflation of the French currency in case of emergency...
...write you this letter calmly, not happen to be interested in any of the five men whose pictures by Artist Woolf you offer for sale in this outrageously restricted manner. But I do have my eye on the extremely spirited sketch of Otto H. Kahn, by Artist Stevenson, which appears on the cover of your Nov. 2 issue. Is it to be "offered" also...
...music loving man, and I would like to bid on so excellent a likeness of the greatest of contemporary musical financiers. I shall expect you, if you do offer this sketch for sale, to respect the "vested rights" of a "regular buyer," which my newsdealer will readily attest that...
Bennett, correspondent, printed an able pen sketch of Colonel Winship: "He is the embodiment of Sir Philip Sidney's definition of a gentleman. But Blanton Winship of Georgia is not only the politest man in the Army of the United States. He is more than manners. He is a gifted lawyer and a fine soldier. He is an exceptional horseman and always has owned good horses...
...king is stung with the desire to fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...