Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held in the Marine mess hall. The President attended, heard Marines sing hymns to the tune of a small organ lent by the Y. M. C. A. ¶. The Hoover secretariat has long been troubled because it has not been able to build its "Chief" up with the sort of human-interest publicity which proved so helpful to Calvin Coolidge. Chief obstacle has been President Hoover's refusal to allow...
...Board of Education, by a cash check for $150 which he had endorsed.¶ State Senator Harry W. Starr, onetime city prosecutor, onetime election commissioner, by two checks of $200 each. He said: "They were given me ... for legal services which I rendered." ¶ Onetime State Senator George Van Lent, by two vouchers. ¶ The late Sergeant Martin C. Mulvihill, "world's greatest policeman," famed hero of many a dangerous arrest, by a $500 note signed while he was on the police force...
...Lord and Dear White Knight." In return "Louis de Bourbon" issued notes "payable in the near future" when he should have regained his rightful place as France's ruler. Last month Mme Heitz went to a medium who revealed that her King was misappropriating the funds she had lent him. Forthwith she demanded a reckoning...
...Summertime, a somewhat sulphurous title for this report of a serious-minded and even noble experiment, tells about the summer holiday of four young men and four girls, Norwegians all, and all unmarried, emancipated, intellectual. Congenial companions in civilization, they thought it a good idea when a friend lent them an isolated island for the summer. All of them had work to do and were serious about doing it, each of them looked forward to a productive holiday. They were quite sure no sentimental complications would upset them...
...Roumanian Diary is the journal of a German doctor who served on the Roumanian front in the winter of 1916. Primarily a physician, a man of peace, he never strikes the professionally martial note. Once an artillery officer pointed out to him where the Roumanians were supposed to be, lent Dr. Carossa his field-glasses. "Turning a little screw, I suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor...