Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fraternity men proceeded to pass resolutions: condemning Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur Howland, a student who is working his way through college by leading a dance band...
Hahn sent Sullivan to Lasker, who lent the $250,000 under the impression that it was to be used to cover stock losses. A month later, the Second Circuit Court...
...Queen Wilhelmina and King Leopold of the Belgians (see p. 17) was shelved last week was an indication of how desperate the Allies thought Germany's position. And the attempted assassination of Führer Adolf Hitler in such a Nazi sanctum sanctorum as the Munich beer hall lent substance to much wishful thinking that Germany was near an internal revolution. In London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said that the Allies were sitting pretty because: 1) the repeal of the U. S. embargo opened to the Allies the "greatest storehouse of supplies in the world"; 2) The British-French...
...Washington Times. When he lost that, Adams got him another on the New York Tribune. Later he became a dramatic reporter on the Tribune, when Heywood Broun was dramatic critic. Broun-who wanted to work at something else-in "a burst of bad judgment" lent his job to Kaufman. After reading Kaufman's reviews, Broun took the job back...
...more students, attracted by the stirring airs of the band and by the majorette, Miss Rennie Smith of Revere, joined the parade, while scores of others watched as it went down the street. Miss Smith, scorning the chill November wind, appeared in a costume appropriate for the occasion, and lent grace and precision to the enthusiastic but somewhat nondescript band...