Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smooth-skinned gentleman with bushy dark beard and silky hair then added: "I go in a year's time. I shall take every English musician to America with me I can. . . . A friend of mine in California spends as much on an orchestra as we spend in the whole of England. The future home of English opera is the United States...
...purchase from the court photographer the sole negative of himself then in existence in Japan. From this the photographer had been making prints of the Admiral which he sold at a high price. Togo, having purchased the negative, destroyed it, saying:. "I am shocked to find that people . . . spend money on the portrait of such a stupid person...
Privately run jails for young ladies of rich families make special dispensations for escape from 2 until 5.30 so that young chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...
...Conrad had two main occupations in life: he sailed the seas and he wrote books. If he is to be honored with a concrete evidence of popular esteem it should be, certainly, something which will benefit sailors. No one claims that the sailor on shore leave is going to spend all of his time brousing in the Joseph Conrad Memorial Library. Nevertheless the institution will open up vast worlds to those of their number who have never read any of Conrad. Simply because one has chosen the oldest and not the least honorable of trades--that of voyaging...
Coach Roper declined definitely to fame his starting, eleven, and considerable doubt still exists as to just how much time the various Tiger cripples will be able to spend in active combat...