Word: lente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...values, has done its best to minimize the annoyance that good food offers to an earnest young man, and no one can quarrel with the variety of peculiar and ingenious solutions. But the efforts of the Kirkland House Committee seem to me to be less skillfully devised. Now that Lent is over, I am not sure that the formula of bad meals eaten in silence will be enough to restrain undergraduate vernal exuberance...
...through this year and into the first half of 1941-by rearmament orders of the U. S. Government and others. Last week, in a report to SEC, Atlas revealed how the belligerents have managed to get a preferred place on its TNT order books: $1,427,000 has been lent to Atlas by France and England, interest free, to be used for building a new TNT plant. All its output is to go to the Allies for shells, bombs, torpedoes, etc. Its location: Atlas refused...
...horrible example was Continental Securities, acquired in 1937 by a gang of speculators, most of them now behind the bars, for whose skulduggery Continental's bankruptcy trustee is asking $3,300,000. Stephen Paine, of Wall Street's reputable Paine, Webber & Co., lent the sharpers $580,000 to buy the voting stock of Continental, grab control of Continental's $3,371,000 portfolio. This they liquidated, replaced good stocks with securities of paper investment companies...
Mickey had been an MGM contract player ($250 a week top) for a year, and his pert ways and brassy cackle had lent themselves to shows like A h Wilderness, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Devil Is a Sissy. It did not look to anybody as if the part of Andy Hardy in A Family Affair would buy Mom's big car. It was a B picture and got a normal B response. But serials were being done. So MGM made another Hardy picture, and another. The fourth one, Love Finds Andy Hardy, was made...
Sculptor Fingesten gets a small monthly check from a patroness, Mrs. Joseph Wasserman, millionaire rugman's widow. For studio he uses a leaky shed in Oak Lane, lent him by Temple University. On rainy days he moves to a cellar. He has taught his Irish landlady how to make bouillabaisse, goulash, spaghetti sauces. "Already I am seven days behind in my rent," says breezy Peter Fingesten, "but she treat me like a mother; when I am sick she cure me - everything. Now she even wants to study painting from...