Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bureau of Census, subdivision of the Department of Commerce, calculates diligently; but diligence takes time. Last week, it gave out its estimate of the total wealth of the U. S.-at the end of 1922. The sum is quite inconceivable, consisting of twelve figures, five of which are ciphers: $320,803,862,000-in other words 320, going-on-321 billion dollars...
Maudlinity came to be worth the incredible sum of $6,000 a week to them. They formed their own company. Famed were its members: Peter F. Daily, "the quickest-witted man who ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in his dressing room; golden Lillian Russell who "broke 1,000 hearts a night" when she sang Rosie, you are my Posie; David Warfield, William Collier, Fay Templeton, De Wolf Hopper, Bessie McCoy, Frankie Bailey, Sam Bernard...
Last week, came the announcement that Duveen Bros., famed London dealers, had bought six of them-three Reynoldses, a Gainsborough, a Van Dyke, a Frans Hals-for a sum said to approximate $1,500,000.* The portraits would be shipped to the U. S. "soon," said the Duveens...
...said, "unless the attacking national had an ally on the west coast of South America." The possibilities of such an alliance were very remote, in his opinion, because of the improved relations between South America and the United States which have existed since the government paid a large sum of money to Colombia for the loss of Panama...
Meagre enough, these items, bearing as they do upon that awkward, austere, magical name whose connotation is an unquotable sum and an unknown personality. Yet, out of such flying hints, has grown the outline of a character, blurred at first, like a face vaguely limned in charcoal scratches, clarified little by little with inkier facts, until the quality and temper of the man have come to stand out distinct, significant...