Word: payed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour law, for the brewers against Prohibition, for special groups against the 19th amendment (woman suffrage). In 1918 he was investigated by a congressional committee for spreading German propaganda. According to Chairman Caraway of the Senate lobby committee, Lobbyist Arnold would take any side of any public question for pay...
Sued for Divorce. Alexander Suhkov, Russian émigré, by Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe; at Cologne, Germany. Grounds: nonsupport. Fortnight ago she sold all her private property for about $180,000, moved to a cheap boarding house near Bonn. She offered to pay Suhkov 10,000 marks ($2,400) for the return of her letters, he having already embarrassed her by writing his amorous memoirs and dedicating them with a sly flourish to her brother, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry. Derisive fingers were pointed at the elongated necks, piggy eyes, distorted sloping shoulders, characteristic of the Modigliani manner...
Borne off to jail, straight-jacketed, he told the wardens he was a millionaire, would pay them vast sums for his freedom...
Publishers pay good money for memberships in the Associated Press. Newspaperdom is agreed that an A. P. franchise can be more or less definitely priced. But last week in Washington the Federal Board of Tax Appeals ruled that a press association membership has no definite value, is an "intangible asset." Intangible also, ruled the Board, are circulation and "good will...