Word: spender
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harold Spender, British journalist and biographer of ex-Premier Lloyd George, made the statement (in a signed article in The New York World and other papers) that the late ex-President Wilson and ex-Premier Clemenceau of France took advantage of his temporary absence in England to sign a secret agreement at Paris, allowing France to occupy the Rhineland for 15 years. Mr. George was quoted as adding: "Yet I have always been attacked by many people in England as the villain of that piece." After a pause Mr. George was alleged to have continued: "Yes, I have just received...
...HAROLD SPENDER: "What I wrote for the American paper was a description of Mr. Lloyd George's house and grounds and of his life there, with a few observations thrown in?which they appear to have cut?after spending a weekend there. The observation which has attracted so much attention was only a few lines out of the whole article, but still I thought it was desirable that it should be known. . . . If there is any carelessness in the matter it is entirely mine. I take all the blame. I did not ask his permission to use anything he said...
Later Mr. Spender issued this statement...
Lucky escape. Then Martin Devlin came along. He looked like Eugene O'Brien; (cinema idol); his "masterful wooing" just swept her off her feet. The jealous wife of her boss made her business position impossible. She married Martin. The marriage lasted four years. Martin was extravagant?too good a spender ?his ideas of marriage and Jeannette's didn't jibe?he wanted children?she said they couldn't afford them?she missed her independence. The break came, when, at last, she went back...
BENEDICT ARNOLD. An intrepid and an able soldier. (" Perhaps it was vanity that made him so, but war can put up with a lot of vanity of that description.") Likewise he was an intrepid and an able spender. His merit unrewarded, his vanity injured, his purse empty, he deliberately turned traitor...