Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life of Johnson and Tour to the Hebrides. There were also such tidbits as a report to Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Boswell's own love affairs, and a verdict on Dr. Johnson's old friend, Mrs. Thrale (". . . For all her care and attention she was amply repaid by the gratification of her vanity in having so great a man ... to use, as it were, in her possession...
...will was filed; except for $1,000 to a cousin, she had left everything to Memorial, but hospital officials did not expect it would amount to much. Last week, when her safe deposit box was opened, jewelry, stocks, bonds, gold and bank books showed that Margaret Pierce had repaid Memorial's kindness. She had left about $150,000 for research, to help save others from the suffering she had known...
...Chicago nobody seems to care about many things connected with taste," says Ohio-born Artist Francis Chapin. But reservations about his fellow citizens' esthetic sensibilities have not kept Artist Chapin, 51, from spending most of the last 30 years in & around Chicago. By last week, Chicago had repaid his perseverance by awarding his bright, breezy Black Bull top painting honors and a $750 purse at the Art Institute's big 54th Annual Show...
...Balletomane Sol Hurok had his hands on the company, its American accent became thick with borsch, but Dancer Chase brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest hits, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22, 1944). The Yankee twang was sharpened even more by commissioning new ballet scores from U.S. composers...
...more was said until last week. Then, Dev's Irish Press broke the news that the Russians had at long last repaid the loan and retrieved their jewels. Prime Minister John A. Costello explained that the Russian jewels had never been worth more than $5,600, but his government had collected the full $20,000. Thus closed the first, and probably the last, Soviet-Irish loan...