Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make sure of a happy honeymoon at vast, forbidding Himly Hall (lent by the Earl of Dudley) Modern Bride Marina ordered sent out from London for projection at the Hall, a selection of lively films, including Mickey Mouse...
...exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer), his peasant woman taking care of her child on the seashore (from the Pennsylvania Museum of Art). Critics were amused by his able portrait of his sister who looked like ZaSu Pitts...
...days later a potent delegation of bankers accompanied by Francis M. Law, retiring ABA president, went to the White House to thank the President for his kind words. Banker Law. arriving by taxi, found that he had no money in his pocket. A correspondent of the Wall Street Journal lent him 25? and impishly put an account of the transaction on the Dow-Jones news ticker. Before the delegation was ushered into the Presidential office Mr. Roosevelt had got the news from his ticker. He met Banker Law grinning. The New York Herald Tribune solemnly quoted the President...
...large audience including Chief Justice Hughes sat in the inner court of the new $11,000,000 Department of Justice building and waited 15 minutes until President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley drove up. Then the building was dedicated. The President lent an attentive ear while Attorney General Cummings declared...
...century later the college had lost almost everything but its past. The Civil War stripped it of students, burned its buildings. Starting anew after the war, it struggled along until 1881 before closing its doors once more, this time for seven years. The State lent a hand in its reopening, took it over in 1906. By 1918, when women students were first admitted, the college of Jefferson and Marshall was little more than a third-rate normal school, with 131 students...