Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only those who buy or borrow bootleg books got a chance to read the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the most outspoken novel yet written on sexual unhappiness, its cause and cure. Those who read it remember, besides its paeans to physical passion, punctuated by Anglo-Saxon four-letter words and North-country dialect, its Lawrentian plot: how Lady Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward...
...questionnaire circulated in one of the houses asked whether the students wanted a new ruling which would allow house members to borrow books for reading in their rooms. Despite the affirmative wording of the questionnaire, almost 50 per cent answered in the negative, because the realized that under such an all-inclusive plan the House library would become another Widener. Nevertheless, the response, which may be assumed to be representative, clearly demonstrates that there is a strong feeling in the houses that at least some books should be lent out for room...
Even Jesse Jones, who is not usually so half-baked, showed the same trend of thought in his speech to the National Education Council. "If we are to have lasting recovery," he said, "banks should be more considerate to prospective borrowers, and those who are able should borrow and invest and take a reasonable risk. The time has come when people should begin to rely on themselves and on private sources of credit. We cannot go on indefinitely with the government doing everything." Nothing could be more true...
...with the war debts--that if was "morally reprehensible" for sovereign governments to "funk on their contracts." The third class is not really a class, it is just Senator Borah. Will he endeavor to have his legislation, making it impossible for governments that defaulted on their debt contracts to borrow again in the United States, made applicable to the Roosevelt government...
...question of a central bank. How shall we safeguard the Integrity of our central board? How can we Insure that they will have sufficient intestinal fortitude to withstand the criticism and abuse which will be hurled at them for putting on the "brakes" "when business is booming," to borrow again from the lips of Lippmann? As he himself, indicates, the problem cannot be solved simply by insuring the members of the central board an adequate salary. The writer of Today and the sage of Tomorrow observes that in large part this must depend "upon the capacity of the board itself...