Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...along the Avenue. There was no stir, no chatter of departing guests in the still room-the gallery of M. Jacques Seligmann. Women of fashion, men of affairs, all strangely stayed when they should have gone home to dress for dinner. They did not go because they had lent their faces to the Loan Exhibition of the Society of the Art Patrons of America. In one corner stood Otto H. Kahn, international banker-a suave, stocky, domineering head by Sculptor Jo Davidson ; near him, in the twilight, H. P. Davison, a banker no less famed, gazed with measured glance...
...that he be came a practical as distinguished from an Oxford politician. In a variety of positions, many of them important, he has served his country and served it well. Since the War, even during it, he lent his weight and experience to the problem of international peace. In 1923, his King, in recognition of his great services to humanity, made him a peer of the realm and he became Viscount Cecil of Chelwood.? Now, in the 39th year of his public service, a distinguished U. S. jury ? Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard; Judge Florence...
...Rome in the Doria Palace?lent by Prince Doria, descendant of the famed Genoa Admiral?containing 1,000 rooms with accommodations for 6,000 troops, assembled the Council of the League of Nations...
Addresses. The delegates lent their ears to the addresses that occupied six days of sessions, morning, afternoon and night...
...status of the U. S. as the great creditor nation of the world is already bringing new and strange borrowers to Uncle Sam's loan counter in Wall Street. By an irony of fate, many of the European countries which lent us money a generation or two ago to build our railways, are now applying to Wall Street investment banking houses for loans to improve and extend their own railroad systems. One of the basic ideas in the Experts' Plan was to extract reparation payments from the German state-owned railways. As a preliminary step to this process...