Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it was a question of "Sacred Union to Save France" in 1934, the Right lent Tardieu and the Left lent Herriot to do nothing as Ministers of State but lend their prestige to the Doumergue Cabinet. When distracted "Papa" Doumergue decided that the sheer rascality of Paris politics left him no alternative but to retire to his farm, M. Tardieu resigned as Minister of State, announcing, "I retire with Doumergue...
...must give the Emperor credit for having lent prestige to moral values in his country and for having made courage, work and persistence respected in a land where only physical force had any value. . . . The numerous Ministers are generally more or less related to the Emperor and the Emperor considers the granting of a Cabinet post a simple method of calming a noisy cousin or a belligerent vassal. . . . Disorder and misadministration make each Ethiopian Ministry a bottomless barrel into which money flows. . . . Emperor Haile Selassie inherited a savage country. . . . He will never be a leader of men, the chief...
...week President Butler received a stern tut-tutting. In his annual report, Dean William F. Russell of Columbia's Teachers College wrote: "The little red schoolhouse, with its ignorant teacher, slight equipment, few books, red-hot stove and icy walls has become glorified in some minds; distance has lent enchantment; and the inference is that if we should only return to the good old days all would be well...
...spite of the strained feeling between the rivals, a remarkable quality of sportsmanship was evinced by the Standishites. When the ranks of the Gorites became thinned by desertion, their rivals actually lent two fielders so that the game could be finished...
...continue to produce it until Friday night. The play was supposed to be amusing and it was amusing. As the only complex character in the play Miss Lois Hall was successful in a manner of speaking. She delivered her lines with feeling, but the continuous tenseness of her voice lent an unsought atmosphere to certain moments in the first and second acts...