Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Woods, who produced, "The Rape of Belgium," once was active in the ten-twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...view of the war-tax on theatre seats and the fact that the public is using a little more discretion in selecting its amusement, managers are doing themselves a dangerous turn to offer such plays as "Her Regiment" as first-class productions. This play might be made successful if a number of musical-comedy artists, the breed still exists, were gathered together and a large amount of reconstructing was done. As it is, it is a dangerous vehicle to exhibit slender or average talents...
Tickets for the Yale Freshmen game are on sale at the H. A. A., and Leavitt & Peirce's at $1.10, including the war tax. A cheering section is reserved for the Freshmen...
...margin because of the war" the tradesman would say to the carpenter, who would replay that "I have doubled my efficiency because of the war," or to the manufacturer, who would rejoin that "I take special pains with my products because of the war." Man would be honest over tax schedules "because of the war," maids would break fewer dishes "because of the war," college students would work harder "because of the war," dentists would be gentler and plumbers have a heart. But we all know that it is not often so. The storekeeper is uncertain with his deliveries "because...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...