Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upshot of the difficulties in Spain, Mr. Cope announced, was that the Quakers were pulling out. "It would simply be dishonest to continue in Spain to spend the money being collected abroad for this children's relief," he said. "Franco has assured us he would like to have us continue the work until we are ready to retire, but it is evident that he wants the food, not us. There is no way of being sure where the food is likely...
...British troops, 400 British airmen guard it. Since most of the stockholders are French, 19 of the 32 directors are Frenchmen (ten are British, two Egyptian, one Dutch). Italians have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because Italy spends big money on Suez tolls to maintain communication with Italian East Africa. Lately Italy has been trying to lend weight to its demands with the somewhat irrelevant assertion that not only Ferdinand de Lesseps, but three obscure Italian engineers planned and dug the ditch. Their names: Negrelli, Torelli and Paleocapa...
...previously unstudied "Turner wastepaper basket," eleven boxes of notes and sketchbooks preserved in the National Gallery. The figure that emerges is a businesslike professional with a shrewd grey eye and the weather-beaten taciturnity of a shipmaster, a lover of open sea, open sky and the money that enabled him to be independent and solitary. In reproving Thornbury's tales of early love affairs and a later mistress, Biographer Finberg was possibly over prim. But his facts are faultlessly chronicled...
...mummy it has been a trying year. Pleaded she in Surrogate's Court: "It will cost approximately 50% more for maintenance than prior to the infant's coming out. Your petitioner has no money of her own." The court spotted her an extra $52,000 out of Daughter Brenda's $154,000 income (from an estate held in trust until Brenda...
...Savings is a 'good' word, tenderly regarded in the folkways. ... If savings are not invested, they become hoardings, or idle money. . . . Investment is a 'good' word. . . . Hoarding is a 'bad' word. . . . Always remember that one context pleases the layman and the other distresses...