Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disillusioning to customers but useful for them to know is that "a pawnbroker never lends money on the basis of what the customer paid for the article. If it's jewelry, we lend only on the actual value of the gold or silver...
Button-Down Collars are like the years--they go on forever. Colorful striped and checked patterns lend themselves to the Button-Down Collar shirt, and of course a full stock of plain color shirts in all the different collar styles are essential in any man's wardrobe...
...that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last summer Reiner quietly persuaded Philadelphia's Mrs. Curtis Bok to lend him four tuben and a bass trumpet, had them shipped to San Francisco, hired four members of the Oakland Symphony to practice up on them. This week when he hopped the Overland Express for New York, he left behind him an orchestra warm with his praises, a jubilant press...
...acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name and presence to another saloon, soon to be opened in the Miami Vanderbilt Hotel...
Whether the new men take advantage of the opportunity is up to them and their prospective hosts. The cuisine of Adams House may be a welcome weekly relief to the roast beef au joos of the Union, and the Winthrop House waitresses may lend a zest to the Freshman's appetite that has been desperately absent since he came under the wings of Mother Murray and her Brood...