Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chaplin, Admiral Byrd and Rasputin; a cane made from a log of Abraham Lincoln's cabin birthplace; a cane on which are carved the faces of all Hungary's kings from Attila to Franz Josef. The Earl of Gosford displayed himself and pipes. Authoress Joan Lowell lent some 50 quarter-inch Central American dolls. Others volunteered their stamps, coins, needlepoint pictures, ship models, salt cellars, decoy ducks, penny banks...
...COMPANIES LENT 20 BILLIONS IN 1929 IN CALL LOAN BOOM...
...entrust to the Department of Labor the responsibility for determining what constitutes superior talent and what actors are sufficiently distinguished to grace the American stage. Tremendously flattered though the Department may be to find itself designated as dramatic critic for the nation, the fact remains that art has never lent itself very well to government supervision. The ban on Ulysses, which was the result of the cultural prejudices of a certain inspector of customs in New York is a good example of the sort of thing which occurs when the state turns to the weighing of talent. But governments will...
...there is nothing in these vague whisperings; but it would seem evident from the slow steady rise of the Prince and from the tactics by which he accomplished this, that the Regency rumors are not only highly significant for the present but also indicative of the future. They are lent additional strength by the fact that this would probably be the ideal solution of the Austrian problem from every point of view but the German. Dollfuss, who is now neither fish nor fowl and who consequently has no power over the elements which he called in to save him would...
...many a Roman Catholic parish offers some kind of play or pageant. Jesuits and Franciscans have given performances in San Francisco. Chicago has an annual and Milwaukee a biennial sacred play. A nine-act drama, The Passion, is given at St. Xavier College in Cincinnati. Last week as Lent opened, pious spectacles began to appear...