Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover Cabinet was picked, it was reported, but would not be announced until a few weeks before inauguration.*Those weeks will be spent by the President-Elect on Belle Isle, off Miami Beach, Fla., in the mansion of James C. Penney, chainstore man, intimate friend. A proud parent, the city of Miami proper last week invited Calvin Coolidge to come there too, to stay permanently...
...cost of national defense has increased about 100 millions since 1926 but explained that "in these prior years the defense establishments have had the use of surplus left over from the war." The President declared himself satisfied that money for the Army and Navy air services was well spent. Besides Army & Navy flying, the U. S. air program is carried forward by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the Post Office, Agriculture and Commerce Departments. More than 140 millions was provided for the aeronautical work of these branches...
Three hundred millions is about the total sum spent on enforcement since Prohibition became...
Died. Alice Mary Longfellow, 78, eldest daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by his second wife Frances Elizabeth Appleton; at the Longfellow family home, "Craigie House," in Cambridge, Mass. Miss Longfellow spent most of her life in the interest of women's education, as a founder and adviser of Radcliffe College ("Harvard Annex"). As a daughter of one of the most famed of Boston "Brahmins" her literary connections were many. She was the last survivor of a dinner party given in 1868 at Boston's old Parker House by Charles Dickens. But her memory will be most sharply recalled...
...limpid spring months he spent at an outlaw camp, favorite of the only woman -a girl whose hair had turned white with the War. Babka weaned him body and soul from the starvation of trenches and prison; then reluctantly sent him on, his identity of escaped prisoner well camouflaged by the clothes and identification-tag of dead Bjuscheff, Russian deserter...