Word: lent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hudson's view, Second Church had strayed from the narrow and uncomfortable Calvinistic path. It did not observe Lent or Advent. The service included no processional, no responsive reading-rarely even the Apostles' Creed. Most of the members had no part in running the church. Says Hudson: "It was a class church, controlled by the money forces of a few people who held the purse strings, held the offices, masterminded...
...amendment would have made New York liable for five million dollars borrowed by the state College Buildings Authority. The authority would then have lent the funds to colleges for the construction of dormitories and academic buildings. The money will now have to be borrowed at a higher rate of interest...
...eyes followed Marion wherever she moved; her leading men were afraid to enter wholeheartedly into on-camera kisses, since Hearst's newspapers had ruined other men's careers for less cause. When Hearst's own empire was facing ruin in the Depression '30s, Marion lent Hearst back $1,000,000, won his lifetime gratitude. Still in her vigorous 40s when Hearst was in his 80s, Marion remained loyal until Hearst died, reading to him, nursing him during the four years between his heart attack and his death...
With such as these in tow, Preminger could get practically anything he wanted. A mansion in which to film a big dinner party? Mrs. E. Fontaine Broun lent him her palatial estate, Tregaron, which once belonged to her father, the late Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Assorted objets d'art, classy furniture and rugs? Top-name families and museums donated décor to the tune of $250,000 worth. Extras for the ball? The cream of Washington society, as well as some of the milk, volunteered. A five-room suite in the Mayflower? Democratic National Chairman John Bailey offered...
...Albert Lasker gave the committee a marble bust of George Washington, and a jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany library table and an anonymous source lent a Samuel F. B. Morse portrait of Revolutionary War General John Stark. Back to the White House from a private home in Virginia came a tufted upholstered chair that was formerly in Lincoln's bedroom. Cached in a discarded scouring-pad carton in the White House basement were two sets...