Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first we must have the support of the yeomanry. For our platform is this, resolved: that the shop windows of Cambridge, and Harvard Square in particular, are devoid of charm for these ladies who must spend hours looking at them awaiting their escorts. And anyone can easily see how very reasonable is our plea. We do not make it on religious or moral or intellectual grounds but simply on those of sympathy and understanding. Suppose, my friend, that you had to spend long moments in the cold and slush of Cambridge waiting for your chance to eat and dance...
...President Coolidge, facing reporters in his usual conference, intimated that he did not expect to spend next summer at Swampscott; that if it was true, as reported, that Congressman Davey of Ohio had said (TIME, Feb. 15 POLITICAL NOTES) that $500,000,000 could be saved by having fewer Federal employes and keeping them on the job, the Congressman was mistaken; that as for the Senate's resolution asking him to enter the negotiations in the anthracite strike, it gave him no authority, did not alter the deadlock, and he saw no more reason for intervening than...
...very busy one in Manhattan music halls. There were orchestral concerts and recitals by artists with bigger names than Gieseking, and the Friends of Music under Artur Bodanzky were doing interesting things down the street in the Town Hall. No, there was little time for the critics to spend in Aeolian Hall...
Robert W. Pogue (President of H. & S. Pogue Co., Cincinnati): "We look for a very good spring business. . . . There was a nice increase. ... The people have more money and the tendency is today for people to spend money for quite a few luxuries. We notice this because we deal in many of the higher-class lines of merchandise...
...LOVE OF THE KING?Oscar Wilde?Putman ($1.50). Oscar O' Flahertie Wills Wilde once meditated writing a novel "as beautiful and as intricate as a Persian praying rug." He would spend hours at the Middle Temple and in a punt on the Thames absorbing atmosphere from a certain distinguished barrister, a Mr. Chan Toon, whose "long and luminous" converse ran much on the exotic customs of his native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a book she had sent him, he despatched to her, not a novel...