Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many prizes and fellowships offering a trip to Europe as the solid flesh to accompany the more nebulous haze of distinction lent by them, the larger part are a direct result of war-time and early post-war idealism. In those days of friendship and hatred, hope and vindictiveness, the idea of greater intercourse among nations as a cure for world ills found its widest acceptance; and the generosity of people on both sides of the ocean established a considerable number of exchange studentships. Since that time, other interests than purely philanthropic ones have bestirred themselves, and while these latter...
...United States these bitter words aroused echoes. Discontented citizens took up the accusation. A feeling that aviation was unscrupulous, newspapers debased, that the public had been hoaxed, even that Charles Augustus Lindbergh had lent a hand to this nefarious business sprang up. Letters poured in to the newspapers demanding explanations. Was it just a publicity stunt? Why was not the serum used, if it was needed? Why did it have to be sent dramatically from Manhattan by air when Montreal was known as a great medical centre? What was the pretty touch about sending the white mice...
Throughout Japan the Prime Minister's thunderbolt took such potent effect that in several instances angry crowds mobbed Ronoto speakers. None the less impartial observers lent a sympathetic ear to stalwart, forthright Ikuo Oyama, Leader of the Ronoto. He swore that its members are not Communists but the unfortunate victims of a Government scheme to intimidate the Opposition...
...Lent is a season of music; composers, stirred by the most human and the most tragic story in the world, have written notes to sound its sadness or its glory. The greatest of all such music is The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew, by Johann Sebastian Bach; this, 199 years after it was heard for the first time, was twice performed last week in Manhattan by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Ossip Gabrilowitch...
...fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played with more cunning and dexterity. When it became known that Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin were to appear in a second revival, theatregoers anticipated something that might brighten the last long week in Lent...