Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there, six more weeks at home recovering from wounds which had punctured both lungs. She was going to appear against Coffman as soon as she was well enough. He began hounding her. "He bothered me-called me-even followed me. I would have left Dallas but I had no money. He had even cost me my job." He constantly intercepted her on the street, slapped her. "He called me . . . and told me he would kill me if I appeared against...
...woman dependent on a husband at the front receives 26? per day from the State if she lives in Paris, only 15? in the provinces. In Paris the allowance per dependent child is 12&3162;, elsewhere 10?, and a soldier at the front gets 22? daily pocket money...
...Trianon sends familyess French soldiers parcels containing a pullover, two pairs of socks, two handkerchiefs, pencil & paper, cigarets, sweets and box of aspirin; orchidaceous Mrs. Frank Jay Gould, member of a wealthy French women's organization under the patronage of Marshal Joffre's widow which collects money to buy ambulances, last week bought 40; the Duchesse de Caylus, whose Oeuvre des Détresses Cachée tactfully tries to aid needy and unemployed French women as unobtrusively as possible, pays them to knit, fold dressings-work which almost every other French woman is already doing gratis...
...City. Almost since the year of the university's founding (1857) University of Chicago social scientists have watched Chicago grow from a Midwestern town to a sprawling metropolis. They have studied numerous facets of the city -real estate, money markets, stock trading, light & power, men's clothing, furniture, bakeries, pottery, industrial location, voting habits, youth delinquency, Negro families, etc. Perhaps Chicago has not yet profited much from this scrutiny, but it may do so eventually,* and so may many another city...
...ideas about getting on in the world. He went north to study law at Harvard. In 1924, armed with a degree and a recommendation from Felix Frankfurter (now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), he headed for Manhattan. Two things he wanted. One was money. The other: to be known and admired by everybody who was anybody in the Big City...