Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...changed back again to Olive when she realized that Richard Wagner had 13 letters in his name. She adopted the grand manner without reservation, kept a houseful of servants, a car and a chauffeur when that luxury was uncommon. In her grandiose moods it was nothing for her to spend $700 for an evening dress, or to buy a dozen hats on one shopping tour. But she was just as likely to closet herself, spend hours reading her Bible or writing voluminous letters crammed with Biblical quotations. On frequent occasions she would stride into the kitchen, undertake to cook...
...Memorial Church bell and so immediately to the Large Room at the Foogg where I did hear Professor Chase conclude the first half of the history of art with a lecture on Roman Sculpture. And it did make me sad at heart that the Italians don't spend more time reviving their artistic tradition and less chasing innocent, water-soaked Ethiopians...
Public Debt. Two years ago the President, planning to spend some $17,000,000,000 in two years, estimated that the Public Debt would reach $31,834,000,000 by June 30, 1935. Since the New Deal in neither of those years succeeded in spending as much as it planned, the actual debt was only $28,701,000,000 on that date. In the current year spending is also expected to fall below last year's estimates. Hence Franklin Roosevelt's estimates last week were able to show that although deficits are continuing two years beyond the date...
...great tradition decrees that, no matter how closely Europe may tremble on the brink of crisis, one may safely spend a British week end in the country and take a holiday over Christmas and New Year's. After observing this tradition. His Majesty's Government returned severally last week to London. The Home Secretary and Lady Simon had been having fliers at Monte Carlo. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin had hobnobbed with Worcestershire neighbors of their estate, "Astley Hall." Squire Baldwin, as he does every Christmas, put aside the fact that he is Conservative Party Leader...
Chris was a good lad, according to the dim lights of his submerged world. Married seven years, father of two, and still in love with his Anne, he thought himself in luck to have a steady job as stoker on a transatlantic liner, to spend one blissful week at home out of every hard month. It never occurred to his simple mind, nearly as calloused as his hands, that Anne might not be contented as he was. His boozy father-in-law hinted, neighborhood gossip spoke plainer, Anne herself as good as told him that something was wrong. The most...