Word: trivialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adolphus Busch (breweries) estate, to pay into the U. S. Treasury within 90 days $226,878. This is one-half of the $453,756 which the I. C. C. says that the road earned from 1921 to 1924, in excess of 6% of its 1914 valuation. It is a trivial sum. But the decision carried a threat of possible loss in values to all the U. S. railroads of eleven billion dollars...
Asked concerning the cause of the next war, General Fries, after stating all of the trivial causes that have precipitated the wars of the past, said. "You've heard what started the World War, haven't you? Here is what the Kaisor says about it: 'One day Theodore Roosevelt called on me, and after we bad joked for a while, he jovially slapped me on the back and said that I could lick the world; and I was foolish enough to try.' Who knows what the next war will be about...
...admission of Eskimo Pie Corp. securities to trading on the New York Curb Market last week marked another incident in the life of a Scandinavian immigrant. The trivial business that Christian K. Nelson and Russell Stover began at Omaha, Neb., half a dozen years ago was now a $25,000,000 corporation...
60th Anniversary. The fire damage was trivial (old boxes, rubbish and wastes in a fireproof sub-basement). Yet it caused more excitement in Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s marbled offices than did the celebration, the same week, ef the firm's 60th anniversary. Bankers of the neighborhood, had sent in some flowers; there were felicitations; and that was all. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. employes are trained to show no emotions. They treated the $3,000,000 of South African gold their company bought last week (the largest purchase of gold from London in several months) as a bookkeeping item. Nor did they...
...spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily do the players carry off the Shakespearean fancies that the audience readily forgives trivial irreverence avows Twelfth Night...