Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having spent millions on the place, the people who make Palm Beach what it is were determined to have their own mayor. Names like Stotesbury, Pillsbury, Biddle, Chadbourne, Phipps, Replogle, Heckscher, Seligman, Vanderbilt were attached to mayoral campaign literature for Major Barclay Harding Warburton, handsome society oldster who used to publish the Evening Telegraph in Philadelphia and now conducts the Palm Beach branch of E. F. Hutton & Co. (stocks, bonds...
...answer to the second question produced an inquisitive uproar. Doubtless, the Anti-Saloon League needed the money, doubtless Mr. Kresge's conduct in giving the Anti-Saloon League half a million dollars was highly to be praised. Yet, would $500,000 spent in anti-saloon propaganda ("educational purposes") be sufficient to counteract the unfortunate effect produced upon those persons who would instantly suppose that if a man commits adultery with, as it were, his left hand while he commits philanthropy with his right, the man is a hypocrite, and the organization which accepts his bounty is a partner...
...latter type are the Harvard Advertising Awards offered since 1923 by Edward W. Bok. The most highly coveted of these is the Gold Medal for Distinguished Contemporary Service, which was presented to James H. McGraw, in recognition of a lifetime spent in endeavor to raise the standards of American advertising. His speech of acceptance, it is worthy of note, dealt with the functions and economic values of the industry as well as its responsibilities...
...reputation of "funster" around camp. He strapped on his climbing shoes with the heavy iron spikes, and disappeared across the plateau and into the Reading Room. A minute later he came in sight. He had two natives under each arm, whose whole lives, as he told us, had been spent in the vicinity of the peak. Had they ever been to the top? Answering with fluent hands in sign language they said, No, they never went so high, but they knew...
Secretary Mellon in a recent article quoted by the Boston Transcript states that the nation's nine year naval program of $740,000,000 amounts to less than half the sum which the women of the United States spent on their cosmetics in the year 1925. He suggests, in defense of the navy, that there are times when gunpowder is more necessary than face powder...