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...contract becomes operative 45 days after the Government of Georgia (South Russia), liquidates its monopoly of manganese exports. This done, the Moscow Government will receive at Lloyd's Bank in London the sum of $1,000,000, which the Harriman interests have advanced against the first year's royalties...
Brown is under contract to play for two weeks, and if his performance is as pleasing to the management as his rehearsals have been, he will probably be awarded a permanent contract in the company. In that case he will finish out the four or five more weeks the show is scheduled to run in Boston and will then go with the show to Chicago and accompany it to London in the fall...
...yelling Finnish-Americans, had his last pictures taken by U. S. cameramen, departed for Finland. On the same day, in answer to those scandal mongers who have averred that he padded his expense account, a list of his expenditures was published. He, who had been offered a professional contract of $3,000 a week, $60,000 by advertisers who wanted his endorsement, lived for six months...
...architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five centuries countless generations of poor scholars wore down the hollowed steps from their pristine rectangularity and looked out upon the Arctic winter from their...
Even in America, where freedom stalks unchecked throughout the land, the newspapers often carry these plaintive little notices which say "I will no longer be responsible for any debts which my wife may contract. Signed, John Doe." The House of Lords might very well have taken one of these notices for a text--it would have been more dignified than the description of woman's legal status as that of a "pet monkey". However true it may be, in or out of law, it should never have been given such official sanction. Much better to have said pet parrot...