Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pretty Mary Plummer. "It was the happiest time I have ever known, the only really happy one"?so wrote Clemenceau of three brief years he spent as a young man in New York, where he worked as a librarian, and at Stamford, Conn., where he taught young ladies French and how to ride horses, at Miss Aiken's boarding school...
Photographer Steichen was born in Milwaukee in 1879, son of a copper miner and a milliner. His boyhood was spent doing odd jobs. He was the first bicycle messenger in Milwaukee. Because he liked to draw and had bought a camera with his savings, he was apprenticed at 15 to American Lithographing Co., where, for three dollars a week, he washed spittoons, swept floors. Soon he was drawing advertisements. Most famed was his large poster of a voluptuously reclining lady with the legend, "Cascarets; they work while you sleep...
Aguilar Lutes. Some years ago a Spanish gentleman, by name Don Francisco Aguilar, was returning home after one of his days spent as royal physician at the Court of young King Alfonso. Passing through one of Madrid's ancient, crooked streets in the still twilight, he stopped to listen to a blind musician. The man's face was tinted and seamed like a Rembrandt burgomaster's. The instrument on which he played was even more unusual. Most people would have called it an outlandish guitar or mandolin. But Don Francisco, cultivated, scholarly, knew it for a lute...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., with current construction work involving some $16,000,000, announced that an additional $9,000,000 will be spent...
...custom hoary with age as is generally supposed. Traditions become weighted with seeming importance through their long continuance, but they should not be allowed to interfere with real progress. It would be absolutely incompatible with the purpose and spirit of the House Plan to expect Seniors who had previously spent two years in one of the Houses to break the associations formed during this time and herd together in the Yard during their last year...