Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heny Miller, West 43d St.--Here is a good place to spend an enjoyable evening. But, don't let the title fool you. Holbrook Blinn's the thing...
...temporary barracks during the War, looking like a collection of senile packing boxes, or in tents. When not drilling, he is called on to repair worn-out plumbing systems and putter around creaking stables. Many an officer, living with his family at such a camp, has had to spend his own money to make his house livable. Having no Garden of Eden, the U. S. defenders take their fun where they find it. At Fort Douglas, they have invented the game of mule polo, whose chief difference from the authentic game is found in the temperamental habits of the mule...
David A. Schulte, Manhattan retailer: "When women enter my tobacco shops or candy stores I can often recognize the scents of their powders and perfumes as having been made in my factories, for I, as a manufacturer, am Vivaudou, and Melba too. U. S. women now spend on the average $6 yearly for perfumes and cosmetics, I figure, and in five years they will spend three times as much...
...dormitories just built last year. Members of the Senior class living in these dormitories were requested by the University to turn their rooms over for use of the preparatory school teachers for this week-end, and they responded unanimously. Thus the visitors will have an opportunity to spend, two nights in typical undergraduate surroundings...
...admittedly a secondary consideration. The institution is little more than a training school for the Ford factory. That children should be taught a certain amount of manual training is a very good thing as there are few better ways to teach good physical coordination. However, that children should spend their school days with a factory ever looming in the background will seem open to question. If New England follows the lead of her auto educator she will develop an educational system much like the one existing on the continent of Europe at the present time. A boy at fourteen will...