Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unfortunately a not inconsiderable element of the audience is on the qui vive to greet the least suggestion of indelicacy with furtive tittering, whisperings, and nudging. This discordant note is far more obnoxious than anything that takes place on the stage, and those who contribute to it had best spend their evenings at home exchanging smutty stories. They are quite out of place in the theatre...
...derbied and the turbaned Turk are brothers below the scalp. Their desires repressed on the battle-fields of the Balkans and in the valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...
Professor Elmer P. Kohler, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, has been named acting dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for the second half of the current academic year, during the absence of Dean George H. Chase '96, who will spend his leave abroad, it was made known by the University office yesterday along with the announcement of the granting of leaves of absence to four other professors in the University...
During the last half of next year Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Theological School will spend his leave in England where he will take up his residence at Oxford University. On the invitation of Principal L. P. Jaohs, he will give a short course of special lectures in Manehester College, Oxford, during the spring term...
...operatic field. He was still in his early 20's when Gustav Mahler sought and secured his services as conductor in the German Opera House at Prague. Strasburg, Cologne and Berlin knew him for several years. He went to Wiesbaden in 1923. It is his practice to spend half of each year traveling outside of Germany, so that Russia, Spain, Italy and Austria are familiar with his dark, dynamic genius...