Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ticket. It rivals football in the intricacy of rules and regulations. In the good old days there was a two man team and the winning team won. Nobody could ask for anything more straightforward than that. Everything went according to Hoyle. But now there is another complicating factor to lend an air of mysticism to the dueling sport, such as it hasn't possessed since the days of D'Artagan. This year each college will be represented by a three-man team, and each-of the three men will be rated A, B, and C, on the basis of their...
Though the College of Critics last week continued to look down its collective nose at Author William Riley Burnett, readers-at-large continued to lend him their ears. Accused on the one hand of "commercializing " the Hemingway manner and hailed on the other as a story-teller who does not set himself up to be anything fancier, Author Burnett never goes behind the facts of what he has to tell, but his facts are telling. The Goodhues of Sinking Creek is only a long short story, but its rapid narrative covers as much ground as many a full-length novel...
Week before the Louisiana State-Vanderbilt football game at Nashville, Senator Huey P. Long generously announced that he would finance the trip for 1,500 cadets, lend $7 to any other Louisiana State student who lacked funds. Purpose of the junket, said the "Kingfish," was to give the university a good name. At a student meeting, he gave out rules: "No liquor . . . no pulling the bell cord. . . . Don't take me lightly...
Even Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" are among the works of art that lend themselves to parody. For of "the three little pigs who went to the Big Three, the pig that was expelled from Yale was the happiest of the bunch...
...Washington office last week Mr. Jones summoned the heads of the seven major roads that connect with M. & St. L. Let the corpse of M. & St. L. be cut into seven pieces, Mr. Jones suggested, each of the connecting carriers buying one piece. RFC would, if necessary, prefer to lend them the purchase price rather than try to resuscitate M. & St. L. itself with cash direct. The seven big lines-Great Northern, Illinois Central, Rock Island, Wabash, Milwaukee, Chicago & North Western and Burlington-seemed to like the Jones "thought." Adjourning to Chicago, they ordered a thorough technical investigation...