Word: actuality
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying...
Laureate Masefield apologizes for not being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been...
...over its sale. But in its pages, "hell" appears "h-," or "heck." With the money earned in two years by Whiz Bang, Publisher Fawcett launched upon a largely successful series of publishing ventures, assisted by his brothers Roscoe and (the late) Harvey. The first, True Confessions, began by giving actual confessions of criminals and other big figures in the news (e.g. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw), but later turned to the usual anonymous-girl-gone-wrong narrative. At its sexiest stage it claimed 400,000 circulation, but a mistaken (and temporary) effort to "clean it up" under the name of Fawcett...
...mind of Diarist Knickerbocker lurks no doubt. "With the ruble at its actual value," he wrote, "the Soviet Union is exporting, in all cases, at a large profit." The Red State, therefore, is not guilty of "dumping abroad," is guilty of inflating its own currency...
Harvard and Yale played before a crowd of 74,786 people in the Yale Bowl. At the Army game there were 57,986 people, and for the Dartmouth game 57,925 tickets were issued. The actual attendance at that game was doubtless far below that number because of the rain...