Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon enough, if Stauning doesn't do what's right!" That there was no violence last week in the Royal Palace square was due largely to the Farmers' Association which appealed to city folk: "Go down to the street, find a farmer, and invite him to spend the night with you!" Response was so wholehearted that all 50,000 farmers had been comfortably bedded and adequately breakfasted by sagacious city folk before they set out to mob Amalienborg Palace...
...With only two bathhouses operating last year Saratoga Spa gave 101,449 treatments at $1.25 to $1.75 a bath, $1.50 to $2.00 a colonic irrigation, 1? a tumbler of mineral water. With the whole establishment running, Saratogans expect 25,000 visitors to take the Saratoga cure each year and spend some $5,000,000 in the city where heretofore bank accounts fattened only during the August races...
Undisciplined, purposeless, irresponsible, the great names in "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age careen from vulgarity to greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife...
...Rhythm (RKO). The conception of a college campus as a place where young men and women spend their time in making animal sounds to imitate saxophones or dabbling, in rumble seats, with the tentative aspects of sex became obsolete in 1929. The fact that most
...express his passion for Miss Sidney, and then proceeds to win her by completely disregarding the scene which Marshall has concocted for him. Another comes with Miss Sidney's discovery that a young husband who gets her up at 7 o'clock and makes her spend her waking hours at violent physical pastimes is less comfortable than an older lover whom the years have made sedate...