Word: lent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only private business, but also the American government, have come to exercise a preeminent influence over the internal affairs of these countries. Government equipment and even troops have been lent to administrations for use against rival parties. Governments, which received the complete support of their people, have not been granted recognition for years because the original prejudice of our State Department was in favor of the previous administration. When strong popular movements, hostile to American encroachment, have been placed in power, the American government has not hesitated to interfere in a financial and even in a military way. To many...
...lovers of brilliance and movement. First, the costumes: Anne Roselle, as Tosca, for instance, appeared in the first act in a chrome orange satin skirt and bodice, a purple velvet jacket and hat, a bunch of crimson roses tied with baby-blue ribbon. Second, the Russian ballet divertissements which lent touches of exotic sprightliness at the conclusion of the evenings. The agonies of Tosca were thus relieved by Rimsky-Korsakov's sinuous Siamese Dance...
Genuine weight, ponderosity even, is lent to this manifesto by the . explanatory information that Ned Wayburn, now turned impresario, is to be Miss Farrar's master of ceremonies. Mr. Wayburn is famed as chorus-master, inveterate, indefatigable scout and discoverer of twinkle-toed "ponies" and statuesque beauties for Mr. Ziegfeld's super-gorgeous Follies. He will introduce new and unusual lighting-effects, will, of course, reign as Tsar of the ballet...
...plan for a Pan-American railroad is not new. Yet the appointment of a committee composed of representatives of South, Central and North American countries, at their joint meetings held in the Pan-American Union Building in Washington, have lent renewed interest to a project often dreamed of. The desire is to provide through railroad facilities from Manhattan to Buenos Aires-a distance of about 10,000 miles. About 7,000 miles of the route is already built, including the line from Manhattan to Guatemala. Most of the existing gaps which must be filled to complete the route...
...more important than the attitude of the American Government, American public opinion considers the Dawes report an American political effort toward remedying European chaos. "That is enormously significant, because it means the reawakening of American interest in European affairs. The average American says to himself: 'Now we have lent them a hand, after all, and at the very first try we pulled the cart out of the mud.' It does not matter whether that is altogether true or whether the main credit belongs to England. The Dawes report has had an even more beneficial effect on France...