Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair's "thing" was a go-day sentence for "contemptuous" refusal to answer questions the U. S. Senate asked him about the oil scandals. Drummed into confinement by gloating editorials throughout the land, he had spent his first night on cot 62 in the prison dormitory. Clad in silk pajamas he had sat most of the night on the edge of cot 62, smoking cigarets. The snores of 60 roommates kept him awake...
Short, stocky, genial, twinkly-eyed, Mr. Ungerleider makes many friends. The walls of his offices are crowded with autographed pictures of Congressmen, financiers, tycoons of one kind or another. A non-partisan in politics, he knows many a politician, spent much time on the long distance telephone during both the Kansas City and Houston nominating conventions. He does not, however, meet any of his friends on golf courses. Mr. Ungerleider never had a golf stick in his hand. And of this eccentricity he is extremely proud...
...Author. In Yonkers, N. Y. (where Poet John Masefield once worked in a carpet factory), lived Poet Robinson. He had been through the good schools of Maine and spent two years at Harvard. In Manhattan next, while Masefield tended a Sixth Avenue bar, Robinson checked off loads of stone delivered for subway construction. There Theodore Roosevelt discovered him, offered him a consulship in Mexico. But the poet refused to leave Manhattan, accepted instead a job at the Customs House. A slow recognition, starting with the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, culminated two years ago with lavish sales of Tristram, his third...
After all, the Freshman Jubilee is a good deal like life. Weeks spent in discussion of the proper date so that no numeral man will have to break training on the night before the big game are accompanied by weeks of arrangement with butchers and bakers and electricians. Months, almost, of careful thought, a few moments of careless laughter in the dim light of quadrangle and common room and then the sun rises upon janitors picking up waste paper and commenting upon the abraded condition of the parquetry floor...
Under the leadership of men like Senator Borah the American people have gradually been forced to the realization that a great deal of money is being spent every year in attempting to infuse them with a definite set of ideas subconsciously through various methods. The protest has not come because of any direct activity of this nature but due to the fact that a great deal of it has been carried on underground...