Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from power but physically from Rumania) has been merciless for months. Not long ago an English friend of the hard-pressed Queen received word from her that "surrender seems inevitable." Last week Bucharest buzzed with the rumored terms of surrender: Queen Helen was said to have demanded a capital sum which would yield $40,000 in annual interest. His Majesty was said to be beating Her Majesty down, offering "$40,000 a year guaranteed by the Rumanian Government"?a totally different thing...
Prospective purchaser of the Post for $3,000,000, is David Lawrence, smart talker & writer, publisher of the United States Daily. The Daily, which he financed by personally raising a vast sum of money from 72 "sponsors," has shown no signs of prospering. In the Post negotiations the names of Eugene Meyer and Bernard Baruch were mentioned by rumor as backers. But why David Lawrence wanted the Post was not made clear...
...troubles began in earnest a little more than a year ago. First, she was reported to have settled a large sum of cash on the wife of a Dr. Earl Pierson. Next, her engagement to Cabarctist Harry Richman was announced, overpublicized, abruptly broken. She lost $13,500 gambling at Calneva, Nev., and refused to pay. Finally came the trial of her thieving secretary, Daisy de Boe, who, in the effort to make it seem that her character had suffered from proximity to Cinemactress Bow, revealed that Clara Bow played poker six nights a week, bought herself a $10,000 engagement...
Marx was wrong, says Will Durant. "The real history of man is not in prices and wages, nor in elections and battles, nor in the even tenor of the common man; it is in the lasting contributions made by geniuses to the sum of human civilization and culture. . . . [The world's] history is properly the history of its great men." Says Durant, the pendulum has swung too far; it is time to turn again to hero-worship. "Too soon we extinguished the flame of our hope and our reverence. Let us change the ikons, and light the candles again...
...many philosophers have become popular in their own lifetime, in the sense that their writing has brought them much money. But Syllabuster Will Durant, ably backed by Popularizing Publishers Simon & Schuster, made a killing with his The Story of Philosophy. Critics scoffed at it, pointed out that the sum-total of philosophy could not be compressed or even adequately presented in one book or by one man. Readers bought over 500,000 copies, felt their culture increasing whether they read it or not. Adventures in Genius should suit the same public...