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...birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
Cried David Lloyd George (Liberal) bristling wittily at Chancellor Churchill: "Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul! . . . He [Churchill] is robbing the whole twelve Apostles in order to endow Paul. . . . Any such program would constitute an indirect subsidy for the property owning classes [i.e. for the owners of farmlands and producer goods]. . . . The whole proposal is thoroughly vicious...
...Manhattan, in a year. This fact became known last week at the courtroom in Somerville, N. J., where 107 Texans were squabbling for shares of $2,000,000 in the will of the late James Biddle Duke, brother of Benjamin. Thirty of the Duke millions were left to endow Duke University at Durham, N. C. (TIME...
...musically inclined student. The part of the faculty devoted to this subject is gifted: the Glee Club, the University Orchestra, and the Instrumental Clubs depend on student talent: the Music Building furnishes accommodations: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Whiting concerts are visitors from outside that help endow the University in that art. Likewise the history and current events of music are here, to be had for the asking, or, as tonight, for the slight labor of attending a lecture...
...former left his entire fortune of some $5,000,000 to endow a hospital for crippled children. Now the latter has created a trust to administer his, variously estimated as high as $40,000,000 or $50,000,000, in the interest of mankind generally...