Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would-be bobbers and manicurists having registered, there was every indication that the Board of Education would bear him out, even at an estimated expenditure of $10,000. The course's Chief opponent was A. P. Ortquist, President of the Board. Said he: "It is criminal to spend the taxpayers' money to teach girls to bob hair and clean fingernails...
...atmosphere, exhausted by preparing his speech of acceptance, worn because of the recent death of his son, decided to reverse his previous plans and take a brief vacation away from Washington. It was announced that, following the delivery of his acceptance speech, he would proceed to Plymouth, Vt., to spend ten days of rest on his father's farm...
...years ago the impetuous prima donna retired from the Metropolitan. She announced then that she would spend two years on the concert platform, after which she would stage her own Carmen. To this plan she has strictly adhered, without temperamental swerving...
...Nelly vengefully becomes Mrs. Paramor. Ultimately, both Nelly and Pendleton revert to type and the story closes with a coo. It is all very country-clubby and insipid, but the bookmanship is flawless-a Jack for every Jill. And occupants of porch chairs who read Mrs. Paramor will surely spend many a more boring Summer afternoon...
Progressive cities and towns, like efficient firms, are good advertisers, the main difference being that the former do not spend much money on this modern cult...