Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wayward Wit. Six years ago loquacious Jimmy was hauled into New York's Supreme Court, charged with libeling a state boxing commissioner. In a burst of silence, he heard Justice John McGeehan sum up his attributes: "One sees the rakish leer in his eye and gathers that he has a wayward wit. . . . He is engaged in a business that is mostly ballyhoo." Few people remember that the man in the iron hat managed five world champions...
This individual robbed me of the sum of $2,000 which was loaned to him as an advance on his salary for the year of 1944; and, after having lost this entire sum betting on horse races, he left Mexico at a very inopportune time and without my knowledge...
...padrone. It has 3,300,000 depositors, one for every three people in California. Every day 3,000 men & women walk into its multiple lobbies, walk out with loans. Bank of America is still Hollywood's great financial house; last week it had passed over a staggering sum to the new producing company which will film Erich...
...applause was polite. At least Harry Truman had not disturbed the air of conviviality by any talk of trying Franklin Roosevelt's old political whip, the political purge. And the Democratic Party had got a good round sum for its war chest...
...Snow," Boston's latest musical romance, draws brazenly on a wide variety of sources, and imitates many more. It runs the gamut from Victor Herbert through Gilbert and Sullivan and Guiseppi Verdi, and ends on a climactic rendition of "Vesti La Giubba." The surprising thing is that the sum total is not chaos, but a lively and tuneful evening's entertainment. Though strongly reminiscent of past musical hits, and in part admitted cribbing, Ralph Benatzky's score is pleasant and melodious. It has to be, to compensate for uninspired lyrics and a book exceeding even the broad bounds of tolerance...