Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Demand was poor because people with little money to spend curtailed purchases and those with much money bought silk and rayon. This year the advertising of cotton clothes will seriously affect woolen goods...
...amputate his reveille, and step upon it heavily, and spend the rest of my life in bed." Whose reveille...
...Considering what you get out of it, you certainly spend an awful lot of time in college," was the opinion of Clarence Darrow, famous criminal lawyer, when interviewed for the CRIMSON. "I have no doubt that college is beneficial to some, but if, as it appears to me, the aim of the majority of men is to make money, it is a great waste of time...
Such has been Raphael's fame that all his pictures have been taken away from little Urbino just as he was. Not one remains. Nor is there is a peddler-millionaire in Urbino with 5,250,000 lire to spend in bringing back even a small-size Raphael of questioned authenticity...
...occasionally it spurts a hopeful wisecrack, the full gusher of real drama is not forthcoming, wherefore it will probably not strike money from Broadway. The hero, played by the author, Frank Craven, masters gullible wealthy women for profit. One victim is a Pennsylvania factory girl, come to Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor...