Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mellow voice, the voice of His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III. At once the buzz of Christie's quieted. The Aga Khan had recently offered ?100,000 ($486,000) for Solario, famed racehorse (TIME, June 21). He could bid up to almost any sum for the diamond "Golden Dawn" if he really wanted it. Perhaps a record in diamond bidding loomed...
...Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage. As a matter of principle, Carrie at length enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe submits; Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin of Father Ned, for realistic, mainly risible character study. Although the construction is loose-jointed, this...
...sum the whole matter up: It seems to me in these various ways, all we have to do is to establish an intellectual community to bind a group of people together a community based on intellect. I think that it can be done only in a small community or group. Our colleges are altogether too large. The great trouble there is not that our student body is too large but that our faculties are large. The great difficulty in this is that the faculty are too numerous to have intellectual unity of their own. If we are to have...
...white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until they resolve to split the business. Their lawyer-proposes a poker game, the partners play and brother Johns loses to brother Nettleton. By the contract, Johns becomes Nettleton's butler for one year, paying the sum of one hundred dollars for every act of unsubordination. The bill runs high. Johns is subjected to every indignity, including a meeting with his flancee in his houseman's garb, until he arouses his master's suspicion by being polite. The discovery that the contract is illegal...
Again the record price for one of the 1,100 New York Stock Exchange seats has risen-from the recent price of $160,000 (TIME, Nov. 22) to $170,000. As soon as, William J. McCall sold his seat to Howard Wasserman for that sum, $175,000 was offered without attracting sellers...