Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the victorious Cantonese war lord, spent the week in directing successful campaigns against Wu and Sun and in strengthening his position at Hankow...
...often occasioned. As a rule he accepted Jack's madcapery with an indulgent "Tschik"; with the Signora he often delayed in his shop discussing how Jack wasted his days lounging and singing beside fountains, how he rebounded from one girl to another, above all how he spent money- wasting it, throwing it away in pursefuls. "More like some prince than our son," said the mother in despair; but the father had not even objected when Jack rode off to war, preposterously martial, on a gelded roan. Early in the campaign Jack got a fever; he came home before...
...Commissioners for Foreign Missions (oldest foreign mission society in the U. S.; formed 1810). As such, he reported with especial pleasure last week that his Board had been good housekeepers during their fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31. Contrary to expectations they had lived within their means, had spent $2,152,272 of the $2,152,765 donated their work by legacies, by individuals, by churches (chiefly Congregational...
...wrote about my sanctuary for waterfowl. Said I: 'There is a sort of romance in having naturally shy birds, perfectly free and unpinioned, coming ... to feed with perfect confidence out of my hand. . . .' Then I wrote of the late Theodore Roosevelt, how once he and I spent 20 hours studying bird song in the wilds of Hampshire. Said I: '. . . [Roosevelt] had a real feeling and taste for bird song...
...Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, and St. Louis, the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. They count on easy entree to the Hotel Statler now abuilding on Park Square, Boston. He conceals his affairs so little, that he often, without forethought has exposed to strangers confidential reports on which his associates have spent hours of labor. Yet he does not thereby endanger the success of his hotel business, for he has worked out a formula for building and operating hotels which no rival, no matter how well instructed, has been able to duplicate...