Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harangue to the effect that he was proud of having once been "kicked out" of the G. O. P. "There are only two parties in the United States now," he cried. "One is the Wall Street party and the other is that opposed to it." Senator Heflin lent his bovine eloquence, carrying on the Wall-Street-v.-Peepul theory until he had demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. The latter and a "crooked" subordinate had aided & abetted the cotton and grain "gambling gang" (brokers), roared Mr. Heflin. Let such rascals resign or be run out of Washington...
...most inexcusable of your blunders is that which calls Washington a Deist, and likens him in this respect to Thomas Paine, then goes on to insinuate that Washington lent his influence to the perpetuation of religion in spite of this assumed fact, because he was an "able politician." This is to brand Washington a hypocrite. There are many pages in his public addresses and messages which no Deist could sincerely have written. Take, for example, the passage in his message to the governors of the States when disbanding the army, June 8, 1783, beginning "I now make it my earnest...
...works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop. He is a fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said of him: 'He has made possible...
...quote the following taken from "The Military Surgeon" of August 1927 under the title "Reminiscences of the American-Filipino War, 1899" by Surgeon Rear Admiral C. M. Beadnell, R. N., C. B., K. H. P., at that time a Junior Medical Officer in the British Navy, and courteously "lent" to the American Forces, who were short medical officers...
...Horta, island harbor of the Azores, pilots Elder & Haldeman were welcomed by the entire population (about 3,000). Mrs. George W. Mackey, wife of Western Union Traffic Manager Mackey, lent Miss Elder an evening gown for a reception in her honor. Said the guest: "I have nothing to wear but the clothes on my back but I hope some kind friend will rig me out." Later, she replied "indeed not" when asked if she were too tired to dance. She declined, however, to accompany Friederich Loose, Karl Loewe & Fraulein Dillenz (Viennese actress) on their flight by easy stages from...