Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately Brother Tom is decidedly persona non grata to Victor Jerome Shankey, rival Democrat. Consequently Brother Tom faced not only a Republican opponent but also "Vic" Shankey running as an independent. On election day Brother Jim Farley lent assistance on the spot. As he went from polling place to polling place, mopping his bald dome in the unseasonable November heat, telegrams dated New York City and signed with his name were being delivered to worthy Haverstraw Democrats even as he shook hands with them. Brother Jim was "particularly anxious" to see the local Democratic candidate for the State Assembly elected...
...just one huge slice of cake. On the fighting side, Japan had scant trouble taking Germany's Chinese port of Kiao-chiao and Pacific islands, supplied some destroyers for troop convoys in the Mediterranean. Japan's total War dead: 300 men, mostly from illness. In money, Japan lent her Allies only 618,000.000 yen ($308,000.000). Britain repaid her share of this in 1919 to Japan out of monies borrowed from the U. S. The rest has since been largely repaid...
Paralleling Jerphanion's story is that of Mionnet, a shrewd young priest who is sent to the provinces to prevent a scandal in the Church. An aging Bishop has foolishly lent his prestige to a shady business deal, and Mionnet, authorized to settle the question, makes friends with the Bishop's enemies, conducts himself with circumspection and wit until his landlady's daughter proves a sufficient attraction to make him break his priestly vows. Occasional chapters, inserted between these two major developments, carry forward the stories of Gurau, the deputy, who breaks with his mistress, and Jallez...
Buxom Mistress Magda Lupescu lent her bullet-proof U. S. sedan to King Carol last week and His Majesty sent it down to Sinaia Station to fetch the Regent of Yugoslavia, esthetic Prince Paul, who arrived by special train from Belgrade. Up for discussion were Archduke Otto's chances of restoration as Austrian Emperor (TIME, July...
...since. He developed his amazing mastery of moted light. The faces he painted expose their surfaces of flesh like faces seen in life, but they also expose their motivations, wills, characters. Anyone could decide, on the evidence of Rembrandt's pictures of this period, whether he would have lent his sitters money, married them or bet on their futures. They are for the most part resolute, weathered, resigned faces, expert at concealment, hav-ing the drama and depth of authentic human beings...