Word: stocked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decrease in stock companies had a deleterious effect upon acting...
...other day an old gentleman asked me if I did not think the starring system most pernicious, I replied that when I was a stock actor I looked upon every star as a tyrant, and when I became a star I looked upon every stock actor as a conspirator. Shakespeare invented the starring system. Hamlet, Shylock, Macbeth, Coriolanus are all stars. These plays also were written to illustrate human passions; Othello, jealousy; Macbeth, fate; Coriolanus, the autocrat; Merchant of Venice, revenge...
...Trusts are not in themselves illegal. - (a) Contrivances of every day occurrence in common law. - (b) Right of stockholders to place stock in hands of trustees undeniable. - (c) Abuses of trusts are amenable to law; New Enlander, 52, 360 ff. - (d) States able to provide against all now observances...
...must be repealed. The income tax law contains three points of unjust discrimination. First, savings banks. It exempts six hundred and taxes three hundred. One class divides its profits-in a particular way and is exempt. Second, between insurance companies. Of two insurance companies, one is a regular stock company and is taxed two per cent on net income; the other, a mutual company, goes free-Third, between kinds of income. This bill exempts general incomes of four thousand dollars, while corporations are taxed two per cent on net incomes without exemption. All corporate stock is widely distributed among persons...
Since the spring games last week, Yale track athletic stock has boomed, and the team is regarded as a fine...