Word: lend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whom to trust? In Bogart the harried producer can find comfort. Bogie may bait and bully his betters, but he can act, and he is reliable. His name pulls at the box office. After his years in gangster parts, his appearance on the screen automatically seems to lend a story impact and excitement. Movie fans do not care a whit if he (unlike Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck) is killed during the course of a picture. Cab drivers, burglars and women admire him. And on top of all this, as an Academy-Award winner (for his part in African Queen...
...engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan from a Jewish friend and bought a round-trip ticket to save money...
...whether they lend themselves to English translation is another matter. Marianne Moore is the only first-rate poet who has ever undertaken to do the whole job. How much better she has done than the standard translators becomes quickly apparent in The Head and Tail of the Serpent. A turn-of-the-century version put the familiar stanza this...
Willoughby said there were many faculty members willing to lend their support to the group...
High scorers Larry Boles and Joe Conzelman will start at left and right wings respectively for the varsity. Rob Alvert will play at the fullback position, while John Nichols and Art Ticknor will lend support to the scrum...