Word: mende
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...announcement by the Business School of its special session contains a promise of splendid generosity and unstinting philanthropy which is among the best of the day's empty gestures. The brochure on the subject has it that the purpose of the session is to mend the morale of unfortunate unemployed young businessmen, at least of those able to raise six hundred dollars for tuition and enough for additional expenses...
...good thing when she has it. And why oh why should the poor housewife raise her wages when she has to spend all of her husband's wages on replacing broken dishes and ruined electric stoves? It's time for America's domestic servants to mend their ways...
...packs her off to England, confesses to. her murder, stands trial, is acquitted. His triumphant homecoming is marred by the exiled wife's arrival. While an anonymous corpse just fished up out of Lake Como lies in one part of the Villa Grazia. the Count and Countess mend their difficulties in another. Signora Zanotti has meantime been jilted by her last lover, so it looks as though things might pick up for the Zanottis. too. William Somerset Maugham has made a handy translation from the Italian. Actress Anderson, giving an amusing if reminiscently Fontannesque performance with her hair bushed...
Other commodities were on the mend. Sugar was up. Surpluses of sugar and wheat both reported down. Copper was up on news that U. S. mines were preparing for a six-month complete shutdown...
...more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter, clothing and medical attention. Those with dependents would have a part of their pay deducted and sent home. With working hours to be fixed by the President, the C. C. C. would clear brush, plant saplings, develop fire controls, fix roads, mend washouts, cook their own food and pick their own subordinate leaders under supervision of Army officers. "Uncivilized" workers would be dropped for infractions of law & order. A worker would be free to seek his discharge from C. C. C. whenever he had another job awaiting him. Approximate cost...