Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dispirited though he was. Col. Shushan was on hand when the air races got their second start last week. The first day of Lent proved fatally inauspicious for Capt. W. Merle Nelson of Hollywood, Calif. On the evening of the opening day he attached 18 rockets to the lower wings of his biplane, roared off into an inside loop. For a few moments the small night crowd saw what appeared to be a giant glowing cigar butt trace a circle in the dark sky. The circle then swooped downward, burst into flames and Stunter Nelson screamed just once...
...monarch. In public life he was wise, honest, and just, in private life he loved a loving wife. He could bow without condescension and kneel without servility. He was a gentleman: he was courageous: he was firm: and he was kind. His presence in a turbulent and cynical world lent some air of stability and truth to an institution that men had come to feel was fragile and dishonest. And he preserved for himself and for his own countrymen, as Mr. Punch had it, the integrity of their own souls...
...thunderstorm over Charleston Bay from the Battery, a country store at Mars Bluff, S. C., old churches and older graveyards lent their bit to the production. In search of a house for the Connellys Director King and party visited Redcliffe, plantation home of the descendants of Senator James Henry ("Cotton is King") Hammond (1807-64) at Beech Island, S. C. across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. Noted were its enormous hall, its silver hardware, its fallen plaster, its air of dingy decay. Outside of Florence, S. C., Director King found the old Johnson plantation house which he had carefully...
...Pursu:mt to French etiquet in such political riots only one prisoner, out of a batch of more than 200, was held in jail on the day after arrest. He said he was a U. S. citizen, Joseph Klustik, 20, of Uniontown, Pa. Police held him as a vagrant, lent a sympathetic ear to his protest: "I was just standing there. I didn't hit anybody or do anything...
...oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved was an estoppment by the Cuban Treasury of interest on some $60,000,000 lent by U. S. banks to the ousted regime of Tyrant Gerardo Machado. Last month President Grau signed a decree ordering the Cuban Electric Co., subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, to cut its rates 30%, a decree of nation-wide importance since Cuban Electric supplies power and light to 207 Cuban cities...