Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening performance of this extraordinary mixture was studded with the most vicious profanity that has yet been heard upon the American stage. Add to this a most realistic experiment in woman-beating and you have a rather formidable sum of objections which were raised against it. But before the police could act the harshness was deleted...
Rumor persists that the Royal Philharmonic Society approaches collapse. The rumor is doubtless exaggerated, but it is true that the managing committee has asked for a $60,000 endowment. There is probably some mistake in the announcement that the income from this sum would support it in perpetuity (six concerts per year) but there is clear indication of the flatness of London song when such a paltry sum (Galli-Curci would earn it in ten nights) stands between London and the best music...
...Greece," that too few great artists have spoken in detail on the sculpture, the architecture, the painting and the pottery of the Achaeans. For Genius may talk to Genius across a waste of years, and without words; everyday man can only mechanically analyze and expose--which is, in sum, not art, but archaeology. But this is not said in derogation of Dr. Greene's book. The time has been when cultivated minds needed no mediator between themselves and Greece, but that time, alas, has passed. The Classics today sorely need scholarly and sympathetic exponents, and Dr. Greene...
...Limit the deductions from gross income for interest paid during the year and for losses not of a business character to the amount the sum of these items exceeds tax-exempt income of the taxpayer...
...published in a pamphlet an article entitled: The Murder of Lord Kitchener and the Truth About the Battle of Jutland and the Jews. An excerpt from this document reads: "I made a definite charge against Winston Churchill in Plain English, a newspaper now defunct. I stated that a large sum of money was given him by the late Sir Ernest Cassel after he had issued what is admittedly a false report of the Battle of Jutland...