Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throw of the Dice (British Instructional). That dicing in India has the importance of a national issue is the rather incredible instruction that U. S. audiences will get out of this film. The dice pass between two young brown kings who start shooting for money, then for jewels, then for kingdoms, then for women. When a clever little boy finds out that the dice are loaded, the news comes as a call to arms and a whole state rises furiously to march on the palace of King Sohat, the crooked shooter. Punctuating these absurdities are scenes of horror involving poisoned...
...will of Stuart Wyeth, president of John Wyeth & Son (chemists), probated at Philadelphia, directed that $5,000,000 be given to Harvard University, whence he was graduated in 1884. Willed he: "The President and Fellows of Harvard University may use the money as they...
When merchants fall out with publishers, as Pittsburgh's recently have, both sides lose money. Pittsburgh's press consists chiefly, of the Sun-Telegraph (Hearst), the Press (Scripps-Howard), the Post-Gazette (Paul Block). Because the stores are well organized in the Merchants Association (a coalition of eleven stores), and because the three big newspapers are chainpapers, a fight between them is crucial...
...learns some of the less poetical things about women when La Ruse's carnality triumphs over his own romanticizing. But even La Ruse feels it necessary to escape the unhealthy witchery of Laetitia, which he does by suicide; not, however, before he has affectionately given young Cartwright enough money to pay his debts. Meanwhile Jonathan Wild is taken out and hanged, and an elegant, periwigged Lord, the poisoner of his wife and most of his relatives, arrives to placate Laetitia...
...MONEY and other stories-Karel Capek -Brentano...