Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Russian, no money in his pocket, trudged up the steps of the Moscow Conservatory and asked for a scholarship. Scholarships were scarce, they told him. There was just one left?and that for the double-bass. The boy hesitated, turned as if to go and then came back, asked if they would teach him the double-bass...
...Last week Chicago unveiled a marble monument to Louis Pasteur. Guest was William T. Lane, 58, of Irvington, N. J. In 1885 he and three other children were infected with rabies. People raised money and sent them to Louis Pasteur in Paris. Pasteur cured them, the first Americans so saved. When they returned to the U. S. they all earned money by displaying themselves in a theatre...
...Every year somebody gives more money to a university or college than anyone has thought of giving before. Last week, Candy Manufacturer Henry G. Granger deposited $100 in the People's National Bank of Hoosick Falls. Each year, half the interest will be given to Princeton University, the other half added to the principal. Theoretically, the deposit would mount to billions, trillions; actually, natural and other laws will prevent any such development...
Washington sat for three portraits. Of these, one was scratched out by Stuart ; the other two were retained unfinished by him in order that he might copy and sell them in quantities. When he needed money, said his daughter, he would copy one in a few hours...
Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit (B) according to the money they are making: (A) White Shadow in the South Seas: Sharks and natives in swimming. The Night Watch: Billie Dove on the witness stand. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chancy gets his man. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the vitaphone. Kriemhild's Revenge: Sequel to Siegfried, last of the great German pictures. Three Comrades and one Invention: Russian comedy. ''Lonesome": Telephone girl's holiday done in the same style as The Crowd. (B) Our Dancing Daughters ($90,000?Capitol, Manhattan); The Singing Fool ($53.000?McVickers...