... of journalism forgets the advantages that North cliffe conferred upon it. To him The Times owes its transformation from a bankrupt nine teenth-century relic into a flourishing twentieth- century property. To him the paper owes its being as a national daily ...

... with the audiences. I do not believe it. The people who claim it say that the theatre is bankrupt of ideas, but I would rather con sider that the audiences are bankrupt of time to go to the theatre. In the great days of theatre-going, forty years ago, there ...

... jockey when your horse was going to win, which was when you had plenty a. p. stuff on the animal. It took him five years to go bankrupt, and now he sits in his garden in the country, chuckling to himself to think of the oddity of life that he should have made ...

... well men as women, to be, and remain during the whole night, rioting and otherwise misbehaving themselves. BY 1772 she was bankrupt. Carlisle House and its sumptuous contents were up for auction. In the ensuing years she made pathetic comebacks, once as ...

... distrust might have a drastic ventilation. He refused the £100,000 honorarium from the City Guilds when he was a theoretical bankrupt, yet to ensure a progressive result he once bribed the Irish Electorate. He favoured the abolition of slavery in the Colonies ...

... Dickens. I believe it's different now. The Magnet and the Gem are dead; Henty, Fenn and Ballantyne sounds like a firm of bankrupt solicitors and childhood seems now to last, in the literary sense, at least until the end of a man's National Service. When ...

... him. On the evening the blow had fallen, Ann had arrived at the flat to find him, in the r61e of artistic and financial bankrupt, a mere ruin in white tie and tails, prostrate on the chesterfield, never to rise again. Done for had been the theme of his ...

... invaluable collection of old records which had been presented to the public library at the time the principal mining company went bankrupt. On his return he walked up the hill from the station through a thick mist, laden with coal dust and sticky smoke, and apparently ...

... come the world's most urgent need will be food. In this respect, however, more than one country is already agricultur ally bankrupt. Even the United States of America became a net importer of farm products as far back as 191 1 and, with the exception of ...

... a sense of service to others. Poverty in childhood (Hannah had been a child between the wars, when farming was generally bankrupt). They liked music both sang in the choir. They acknowledged certain Christian principles, Mark more clearly than Hannah ...

... term at that, but I have a hunch it could work out to bigger things. And who's to say nay to my hunches if they haven't bankrupted Continental yet? Since the schedule is heavy with costume stuff I think you'll fit right in. I also think there are sound ...

... pounds a week, and after three years I was only making three pounds. But I worked hard, and saved hard, and when my boss went bankrupt I bought him out. That just proves what I always thought exclaimed the young man. You can't pay your assistants low wages ...