Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Refunds amounted to $190,164,359 last year. Large as this sum may seem, it was relatively small, for the Treasury at the same time collected $405,855,475 in back and additional taxes. The refunds amounted to only about 3% of gross tax collections, a margin of error which caused the Treasury no concern...
Police Detective Johnson was demoted to Patrolman and scheduled to be tried for conduct unbecoming an officer. It was at this trial, which began last week in New York under the personal supervision of dapper Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen, that the Bronx banquet began to seem an astonishing affair...
...There are still difficulties about applesauce, though the Minister of Education likes it." Innocent though such words may seem, they took on a sinister significance, later in the week, when one Ibrahim, accused of burglarizing the American College for Girls, appeared in court and stoutly retracted a confession he had made to the Police Commissioner...
...Moissi is an actor, a person whose fixation it is to have no fixations. He dislikes contracts and travels around Europe playing guest engagements at capital cities. He wears loose ties and velvet jackets, keeps pets, plays all his roles with a facile and sonorous emotionalism which does not seem to have its source in the ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice "the most extraordinary ever heard in the theatre" and Robert Littell said of his acting...
Many of Composer Pietro Mascagni's loud and pessimistic utterings seem prompted by a great personal grievance based on the failure of all his operas since Cavalleria in Rusticana. But his grounds for grumbling last week were broad, not personal. He had been commissioned to investigate the condition of opera in Italy on behalf of the Royal Academy at Rome. He had found: that of 100 opera houses only 15 are financially able to present a creditable winter season; that the reason is "the fictitious and arbitrary valuation'' of singers' services. To directors of the Academy...