Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queens, N.Y., the Archduke Franz Josef, 42-year-old grandnephew of Austria's late Emperor, paid a $25 fine in traffic court (for driving with bright lights in a dull-light zone)-after a bystander kindly lent...
Fame. As a promotion stunt, Porters, a furniture store in Racine, Wis., has lent umbrellas to some 7,000 shoppers marooned by rain. Gratefully, all but three of the shoppers have returned the umbrellas. Porters' reward: A pat on the back from the American Education Press's My Weekly Reader, which cited this as an example of the inherent honesty of the public...
Texas had never seen anything like the $1,500,000 worth of old masters that arrived in Dallas in a sealed steel freight car last week. Lent by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, the paintings will go on show at next week's State Fair. Among the 30 paintings were works by Titian, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Goya, Rubens and El Greco. But Dallas Museum Director Jerry Bywaters counted on a lesser masterpiece to reach the heart of Texas: Rosa Bonheur's sun-spangled Horse Fair, whose picturebook realism and 8-by-16-ft. grandeur make it a crowd favorite...
...their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent his name and presence. As for a trend, the Republicans could cite one: the Taft-Hartley Act is apparently not a liability to them, and it is going to take something more than demagoguery to make it a red-hot 1948 issue...
...Exhibits lent by individuals and the local museums are shown each month in first floor exhibitions which reflect the favor of various foreign lands. Bulletin boards keep students posted on the latest plays and books published in foreign tongues...