Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other liberals may approve, stirred with the memory of past days, but there will be others imbued with the spirit of Jonathan Edward who will dourly regard a youth "that gets together in conventions of both sexes for mirth and jollity which they call frolics; and who spend the greater part of the night in them...
...found south of the equator, the number of his followers has been growing by leaps and bounds. One might say that it had almost become a fad for members of the idle plutocracy to hire sea-going vessels with a length of not more than fifty feet, and spend the chillier months cruising in southern waters. Not so very long ago, for example, three wags set out from New Haven, with their tongues in their cheeks, to discover a new and more ravishing type to feminine beauty. As they have not yet returned, it is assumed that they have been...
...Crimson delegation, consisting in all of 30 men including coaches, trainers, and managers, will reach New York at 7 o'clock this evening, and spend the night at the Hotel Vanderbilt. Early in the afternoon the weight throwers will compete on the tanbark floor of the Squadron A armory, and in the evening the remaining track and field events will be held in the 102nd Regiment Armory at 168th Street. The trip is under the direction of Brooks Whitehouse '25, assistant track manager
Christian Buddenbrook. The brother of Thomas. At the age of seven a skillful mimic of Marcellus Stengel, his schoolmaster, he is pronounced "witty and brilliant" by Jean Jacques Hoffstede, the poet. He continues a skillful mimic to the end. But beyond that he accomplishes nothing?except to spend Buddenbrook money and to irritate the steadier Thomas...
Texans are independent in their ways and opinions. When the House passed a resolution to permit President Coolidge to spend $100,000 in investigating the oil scandals, one adverse vote was cast-by BIanton, a Texan. Now the Pension Committee is considering a bill to grant a pension of $5,000 a year to Mr. Harding. Representative Hatton...