Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begs to earn her daily bread...
...people. . . . Economy is idealism in its most practical form. . . . The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required ... is only a species of legalized larceny. . . . The time is arriving when we can have further tax reduction, when, unless we wish to hamper the people in their right to earn a living, we must have tax reform. . . . This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. . . . The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay...
Miss Claire went on to state that an actor in a minor part can earn $500 a week by merely playing up to a leading lady, provided he can wear spats and the a bow tie correctly. She deplored the present interest in expensive scenery and stage machinery, instead of good acting...
...story is told of his father's being suddenly ousted from the Italian Legation at Peking by a new Government at Rome because his policies did not please the new Administration. De Martino papa, forced to earn his living in the Orient, where he had had long experience, did so by writing for U. S. newspapers...
...Transcript" last evening one alumnus was quoted as saying, "Alumni who have boys preparing to enter the University are beginning to express themselves very forcibly against the committee which put through this rule. It is extremely unjust to deprive a boy of his points when he has earned them by hard work and has been willing to sacrifice his whole vacation, in many cases, or part of it, to earn them...