Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigating committee testified that this "affluence" was the result of a loan of $100,000 from Edward B. McLean, Washington newspaper publisher, that he had taken this money to Texas and bought lands with it. Through A. Mitchell Palmer, his attorney, he let it be known that he had lent such a sum to Mr. Fall on a personal note...
...well as its place among recreational plans, and through the active interest of the Chairman of the Committee on the Cinema, George D. Pratt, progress has been made in the preparation of films specially suited to the use of museums, art schools and societies, and these will be lent at a nominal fee to those desiring them...
...Russia as elsewhere there are editors who feel pride in their work. The Pravda, an organ of the Communist Party, lent ear to strife within the party. It published criticisms of the Central Committee and attacks on the critics. The Central Committee did not like this impartiality of the Party's organ. Zinoviev, Chairman of the Third Internationale, ordered that all articles bearing on strife within the Party be submitted to him. Konstantinov, the editor, sent 100 manuscripts. Zinoviev returned four of them for publication. Konstantinov protested. Zinoviev ordered. Konstantinov resigned...
...picture was painted in 1881 and has been seen in public but little, though M. Durand Ruel lent it to a Renoir exhibition in Paris last Winter. The scene is a famous French restaurant, and the artist's wife, with her dog and two or three artistic friends, including Caillebotte, are in the composition. The size is 51 by 69 inches...
Miss, Mason's voice was not sweet although it was limpid and rich. She possessed a certain emotional restraint that lent to her singling a peculiar voluptuousness. Her voice showed to best advantage in Batch's Bist du bel mir." Her rendition of Batti, batti" would, we think have been more successful had it been more animated. She sang also Dupare's "Chanson Triste", Liszt's "Comment disaient-lls?" and Rachmanlnoff's, "Flcods of Spring...