Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dances of recent years have proved very conclusively that a fair cross-section of the class is not represented. Consequently, in the event that the Prom is not even a class gathering, those who seek a lively evening of entertainment might well follow their own instincts and spend their money to greater advantage elsewhere. Sincerely yours, Kenneth T. Howe...
...means that to meet the expense three hundred couples at $8 a couple and 150 stags at $5 a stag must attend. Last year's dance, with probably more publicity than any previous affair, drew only two hundred and fifty couples and a hundred stags. Consequently the Committee lost money, even after a last minute attempt to reduce the expense to meet the occasion. First socially and second financially, the dance has suffered a decline...
After reading the article "Smouldering Illini" appearing in the latest issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it is evident that that publication has wasted a great deal of its time and money as well as the time and money of one, Kenneth L. Roberts, in gathering together through the agency of the latter, material for what is purported to be a first hand account of the University of Illinois campus and undergraduates...
...last of Mr. Chaney. Albert Van Dekker, in the part of Leone, Captain of the Fleet, spares nothing of himself to support alone in the play the whole truth of virtue outraged. His acting grew in strength, and no irony was lost in the trial for rape and the money-won acquittal...
...seemed at first that a lion was asking a rabbit to come inside his den; when a picked Eastern team last fortnight beat a picked Western team, people thought that perhaps the analogy was that of a bear entertaining a wasp and the odds on the game approached even money...