Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amount asked by President Roosevelt). This is down $773,000,000 from the total spent by WPA in fiscal 1939-but no one supposed it will not be added to before fiscal 1940 ends...
...Covent Garden. Last winter, Londoners talked of letting Covent Garden sit out this Season. Some reasons: some backers objected to German and Italian singers, Wagnerian operas; others were alarmed about wars and rumors of wars. To the rescue of Covent Garden leaped gruff, goateed Sir Thomas Beecham, who has spent uncounted sums from his pill income ("Worth a Guinea a Box") to give England good music, like...
...whose height seems to increase with distance. Students of Romantic painting have found Turner's shadow longer than that of his French contemporaries (Gericault, Delacroix), longer than that of the Impressionists, whom he anticipated, and somewhere above such abstractionists as Redon, Kandinsky and Klee. John Ruskin spent most of his days interpreting Turner's art. But Turner's life has remained muddied by the fictions of his first biographer, a prolific hack named George Walter Thornbury...
...faced Norman Hume Anthony got fired as editor of Judge nine years ago and spent several months biting his nails in Frank & Jack's speakeasy on Manhattan's West 45th Street before Publisher George T. Delacorte hired him to put out a bathroom burlesque of bathroom advertising called Ballyhoo. In four issues circulation went up to 1,000,000. Long after later issues and lesser imitators had made the idea as stale as a used towel, Messrs, Delacorte & Anthony continued to put out Ballyhoo. It shrank to digest size, became a quarterly. Finally, two months ago, it folded...
...Spending is a 'bad' word. Avoid it like a copperhead. Talk about Government running expenses and Government plant. Talk about putting the Government budget on a business basis, rather than about triple budgets or capital budgets. If spending must be discussed, always remember that every dollar spent by the Government is usually a dollar of sales on the books of some business man. Keep spending firmly associated with sales, wages, purchasing power-all good words...