Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday, September 20th: Whilst I could still get petrol I raced 76 miles to spend a day and night with my own child. Did I speed! At least when I could, for everywhere on roads and country lanes, one was constantly meeting the troops, lorries, vans, tanks, and fatigue parties...
...first to sign up and every year since has punctually sent up to $390,000 to Washington in interest and amortization. Finland in the role of the U. S.'s only non-welshing "war debtor" so impressed the U. S. Congress that in 1935 it voted to spend $300,000 on constructing at Helsinki, the Finnish capital, a splendiferous U. S. Legation of 100% Finnish materials erected by 100% Finnish labor...
...room comedy-a luxurious stage set, a pile of monogrammed wisecracks, a cynical bachelor, a sophisticated butler, a poison-breathing bitch. But Playwright Raphaelson does nothing with them: they add up to a formula instead of a good time. His most original idea has been to have his characters spend most of their waking hours on the telephone...
...only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman Catholic, lavished Latin enthusiasm on Jesus. In The Brook Kerith, George Moore, in cadenced prose, had Jesus survive the crucifixion to spend the rest of a long life in retirement...
...Wiggins, a hotel clerk, was the culprit in The Adventure of the Mother Goose Murders, that week's twist in the Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...