Word: borrowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woolly dog comes bounding down the stair, call, "Bodger! Here Bodger!" After Secretary Kellogg had signed the pact in Paris, Mrs. Kellogg bought "Bodger" in Ireland, as a present for the Secretary's brother in St. Paul-but the Kelloggs like "Bodger" so well that they still occasionally borrow him. A white butler (odd in Washington) will serve tea in the library, on the ground floor, or dinner in the second floor dining room. There is one maid and a cook. The furnace man was born black. Always the master dines frugally and sips sparingly...
...robbed Bolivia of her corridor to the sea (see above) and Nature has perfected Bolivia's woe by dividing the country into two mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia is the world...
...status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...
That the Bank of Nicaragua be authorized to borrow not more than $30,000,000, beginning with a $12,000,000 loan to refund the present external debt and meet other immediate needs...
...because of the grasping, selfish interests ever ready to use such occasions for their own and their country's aggrandizement. . . . ." With regard to American loans to the associated powers, he wrote to the President in August, 1917, that "as long as we have money to lend, those wishing to borrow will be agreeable, but when the bottom of the barrel is reached, it may be a different story...