Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chatted awhile, and said that his latest song is called "What Will I Do in the Morning." Fats calls it his "nine-dollar" song because he spent that much for the "Scheherazade" album by Rimsky-Korsakoff, from which he has borrowed the theme. He likes college audiences and says that playing for them is "mah greatest thrill...
...ordinary U. S. phenomenon, to be rated according to 1) size, 2) noise, 3) absurdity. The Legion's Convention was in not too sober fact an all-time top in all respects. Total attendance, including families of Legionnaires, was 110,000. In six days, the 110,000 reputedly spent $1,300,000 on lodgings, $1,100,000 on food, $1,100,000 on entertainment (chief item, liquor), $1,200,000 in stores, $675,000 on incidentals. Reports that during the uproar in the Astor bar, light-hearted Legionnaires had killed the bartender by bashing in his head with...
Rumors reached the CRIMSON last night that there were some inhabitants of 53 Mt. Auburn Street, the 50-yard line for all automobile accidents on Plympton and Mr. Auburn Streets, who spent enough time in bed to be disturbed by these accidents, and had sent a petition to the University asking them to put a stop to these nightly crashes...
Since the faculty, students, and employees of Harvard College donated $2,700 last spring for an ambulance for a neutral medical unit, we, the undersigned, having conducted a brief investigation, feel that the contributors to the fund should know for what purpose their money was spent...
...Colorado" spent most of its time refueling four destroyers, two airplanes, the coast guard cutter "Itasca," and the Navy mine sweeper which was supposed to have refueled the aviators at Howland Island. Captain William Fridell soon tired of this menial task, however, and put for the phoenix Islands, nearly 300 miles south of the equator. The captain figured that winds and current would have driven the lost pair south...