Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good enough!" was the laconic remark of L. H. Stone '25, early yesterday, when informed by a CRIMSON reporter of the appointment of his father, Harlan F. Stone, as attorney-general. Asked whether he would spend his spring vacation in Washington instead of New York, as he had previously planned, Stone laughingly replied: "Aren't you rushing matters a little? I don't know...
Mussolini's Ambassadors spend much of their time outside the land of sunshine and black shirts in praising the modest leader of the Fascisti...
...Nobility and Gentry." These latter may quite conceivably learn with pain some of the things that go on behind the traditionally imperturbable butlerian countenance. No Admirable Crichton this, however, to transform them. Rather, he gazes upon them and philosophizes, mildly-but inwardly. Thus, of the nouveaux riches: "They may spend their money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their doings will only be a sham. You cannot make a silk purse out of a soused mackerel, neither will they command the same respect." Which leaves...
...Michigan, men and women, came into convocation. Their President, Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, rose to address them. Said he: "Things have transpired recently that are as raw as anything that has happened in my IS years of administration experience. You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble,* you spend weekends in big cities, and then you wonder why we don't want you here. We don't want loafers here, and we will get rid of you as fast as we find you out. Student evils in this university must...
...employee of the Department of Labor. Because I parked my car in the outskirts of Washington in a place where parking is forbidden by law, I was arrested by the Virginia Highway Police, was refused permission to telephone my aged mother and some of my colleagues, was obliged to spend 15 hours in a crowded cell, was compelled to furnish a bond of $5,000. Said I, on being released: 'I am the innocent victim of a terrible mistake; I shall not rest until I receive a complete vindication...