Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norssex case breaks, Editor Carrough is in the Orient. Junior is relieved because he imagines his father, if he had been in Athena, would have stuck his neck out to defend his old friend. But when Editor Carrough returns, and is asked to use his personal influence to lighten old man Norssex' stiff sentence, he keeps his neck as firmly in his collar as any other Athena businessman...
...their capital as quickly as Mr. Ponzi's schemes of a decade or so ago. The Yardling, more fortunate than many others, managed to obtain the arrest of a well known professional pickpocket, who was making the most of the opportunity afforded by the crush around the goals to lighten the load in students' pockets...
...never without it. Frank was a personality, not a mere person, and in his seven years of service to Harvard University, he drew many close friends from those who saw him every day, every month. He would listen to their troubles without telling his own and lighten them with a smile and a joke. For Frank was an institution, and will be greatly missed by all those that knew...
...Darling''; in Hollywood. Her first husband: Owen Moore. Her second: Douglas Fairbanks. Because hitherto unmarried Bridegroom Rogers had a "sentimental aversion" to being married in the longtime Pickford-Fairbanks home, "Pickfair," the ceremony was performed on the estate of MGM Executive Louis Lighten. Only ten close friends witnessed the ceremony, but the reception at "Pickfair" was attended...
...visible doom had aroused both State and City to consultations. Governor Bridges' textile committee pointed out that one of the immediate reasons for Amoskeag's inability to do business was a heavy burden of fixed charges. Applying for a 77B reorganization in December, Treasurer Dumaine proposed to lighten this load by getting holders of Amoskeag's outstanding $11,000,000 in bonds to exchange them for stock. Nearly half the bondholders, however, chose to take cash instead of new securities-more cash than the company could pay. The March flood completed Amoskeag's distress. Fortnight...