Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sparkling portrait of Victor Huge is in the place of honor at the exhibition "Romantic Illustration in France," which will remain at the Fogg Museum throughout the month. Beside the lithograph of Achille Deveria -- lent by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- is a pencil sketch by Hugo of a hill town and an impression of his unique etching "Lightning." Beneath, a copy of Delacroix's "Faust" is opened at the lithograph showing Marguerite in Church. The keynote of the exhibition is set by this central group; the remaining displays amplify the union of author and artist...
...friend's wife fell in love with him, practically asking him to seduce her. And on July 1, 1863, Lee's advance guard met Buford's cavalry, a mile or so west of Bale's home town. In the first day's fighting Bale lent a hand with the wounded on Seminary Ridge. Next day, with the Union troops driven back, his house was inside the Confederate lines. His mistress chose that day to have qualms of conscience: she was sure her husband (a Northern officer) would be killed in next day's battle...
...from the French Press, the details were revealed by foreign correspondents. Before 1926, according to Deputy Henriot, Swindler Stavisky entered into relations with a rival adventurer known as Jean Galmot, from French Guiana. Galmot, a Wartime rumrunner, turned a handsome profit before developing political ambitions. With 800,000 francs, lent by Sacha Stavisky, Jean Galmot became a Deputy for French Guiana. The two cronies developed an even wilder scheme: to arm the convicts in the Guiana penal settlements and set up an independent state which they imagined the U. S. would support. At this point, still according to Deputy Henriot...
...Atlanta, a flush Air Corps captain lent $1,200 to penniless enlisted...
...Newark, an Army flyer lent $400 to his strapped confreres...