Word: lente
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...seems this Mardi Gras (Shrova Tuesday to you) came over from France in the old days, and now all kinds of parades, Nalls ("rety formal" says Miss Fennsbaker), and singing in the strects starts happening as early as Christmas time. The whole thing's to keep you going throught Lent, which starts today-Ash Wednesday-and everyone in New Orleans had to immask at tonight last night and head for church...
...York's blizzard, most of the Yukon was enjoying crisp, sunny weather, and an inch or two of dry powdered snow merely lent a seasonable Christmas decor to the streets of Whitehorse and Dawson. The town thermometer outside the famous Whitehorse Inn has rarely dropped below zero this winter...
...operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...
...General Oliver P. Echols stated that he had made pointed "suggestions" to Meyers in 1940 that he "disassociate" himself from this company. Meyers, who protested that he had held its stock only as collateral for $34,000 worth of loans, admitted that he had not complied. Instead, he had lent the company another...
...advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent Texas Eastern $1,350,000 (which they have gotten back) and brought in Reginald Hargrove, a veteran United Gas Corp. executive. Among themselves the founders and Dillon, Read divided 150,000 shares of common stock. They paid $1 a share for it and split it into 1,050,000 shares...