Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifty eight years of its existence the CRIMSON has known few more valuable men than Robert Sherman McCarter. Throughout the difficult early years he lent his advice and his services with tact and enthusiasm. And when ten years ago he retired he had the satisfaction of knowing that it was largely through his influence and resourcefulness that the paper had become the accepted undergraduate daily...
Even amid frenzied electoral strife last week, the Chilean Government lent friendly ears to U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson. While the welkin rang with anti-U. S. slogans, he signed with Chilean Foreign Minister Luis Izquierdo an agreement, retroactive to May 22 last, which lowers Chilean tariffs clapped on imports from the U. S. at that time, means that Chile grants the U. S. "most favored nation status...
...Theatre. At that show-shop he was given his first part, later appearing with Ellen Terry, Sir Gerald du Maurier and other notables in the British theatre's heyday. He first went to the U. S. to act Love Among The Lions, in 1910. Since then he has lent his amiable presence to Peg O' My Heart, Bull-Dog Drummond, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The First Mrs. Fraser...
...Galleria watched La Scala under a woman's direction for more than a year. Some finally lent grudging approval. But most did not. Jealously they were satisfied last week, for Anita Colombo, first female director of the old opera, had resigned. The dove was going to fly away...
...searchlights. The soldier sets off for the front. The girl, by lighting a cigaret, has herself destroyed by a bomb. Director James Whale, who made a fine picture of Journey's End, was faced by a harder job in Waterloo Bridge. The stage play by Robert Emmet Sherwood lent itself superbly to the manufacture of a third-rate cinematic tearjerker. Director Whale, perceiving that its sentimentalities would be more effective if they were subdued, disguised them carefully and was terse in scenes which might have been heavily dramatic. Director Whale is sup posed to be the quietest megaphone artist...