Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State to give any countenance to such a movement would tend to compromise me and lend color to the misrepresentations that apparently are being made in other States...
...today, he still is all too willing to shirk the duties of this life and lend ear to the enticement offered in the presence of Mr. Joseph Tantner who will sing songs of Schubert and Schumann at the invitation of Professor Ballentine, in the Music Building at 10 o'clock...
...were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...
Upon his return from Europe for a "business visit" last week Monsieur Jean Monnet, onetime wealthy French industrialist (brandy), present Manhattan banking house partner (Blair & Co.) astonished Wall Streeters by explaining through the Manhattan press that his Motherland will henceforth lend money instead of borrowing. An outlet for France's surplus funds must be found, said Banker Monnet, former Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations. But no "rivalry" with the U. S. will result, he soothed. Co-operation in international finance, U. S., England, France, hand in hand, will be the motto. Usurers sighed or cursed. France...
...Rousseau or some other modernist; but beneath it all one seems to feel a rather definite and uniform assumption and attitude toward painting that most of the artists have adopted consciously or unconsciously. It seems to be recognized that at the present day the independent picture does not lend itself, as it once did, to the expression of our more serious and fundamental ideas; in this respect it cannot rival the drama or the written word. At the same time it is felt that mere naturalism--the exact description of objects--may well be left to the photographer...