Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living with him in the sanatorium. He was training under his physician, Dr. Boquet, to become a medical photographer. Yes, he was still a pacifist, but felt hopeful that if he kept his promise not to engage in pacifist or Communist agitation the German Government might let him spend the winter in the Swiss Alps and then return to the Fatherland...
...SAGA OF AMERICAN SOCIETY- Dixon Wecter-Scribner ($4). Dispassionate, 504-page history of U. S. socialites since 1607. concluding with a quiet suggestion that, as "hostages for its own safety," the upper crust would do well to spend more money on living artists, cultivate the English tradition of public service, cease showing...
...made peace with the Communists, announced proudly the "unification of China," and ever since Nanking has been taking a more & more courageous line with Tokyo. What General Yang personally got out of the hijacked kidnapping was $300,000 and his present official assignment by the Nanking Government to spend a congenial year abroad, inspecting West Point and other military academies of the Great Powers. This week he heads for Washington, plans to call upon President Roosevelt...
...earliest sounds young Gershwin heard were the clank of dishes in his father's restaurant, the clatter of the Second Avenue El, the confusion and bustle of the ghetto. At 10, the aggressive, wild-haired little boy was the best rollerskater in the block. Even then he would spend his pennies in a Grand Street arcade listening to a mechanical piano hammer out Rubinstein's Melody in F. He was not much older when Mother Gershwin bought a worn old upright, chiefly to keep up with a relative who owned one. Brother Ira was her first choice...
...closing, Madame Ichikawa sharply rebukes Japanese diplomats who spend their main energies intriguing instead of learning, like her, the language and ways close at hand...