Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loss how to find any openly radical professors in the University, McEnary consulted Charles L. Whipple '35, executive secretary of the Harvard chapter of the National Student League. Whipple denied that he knows of any "radical" professors or of any who support the sims...
...Under the Townsend Plan a diligent shirker with a living mother and father, both 60 years old or more, would be able to retire permanently and support his own rising brood of government guests on the monthly income of his old parents, which would amount to $100 a week. His wife, too, might have living parents also receiving their $400, and on $800 a month the old people would be able to do very well for themselves, their children and their grandchildren...
...simple truth that someone must produce the wealth which is consumed by the nonproducers, be they infants, old people, sick people, the unemployed, the idle rich, or the criminal classes. If Dr. Townsend's medicine were a good remedy, the more people the country could find to support in idleness the better off it would...
However much he is criticized Stravinsky continues to go his own strange and independent way. He makes no excuse for his frequent concert appearances. He has a family to support in France: a wife who is his cousin, an 80-year-old mother, four children-Feodor and Milena who paint, Sviatoslav, a pianist, Milka, who is not yet grown. At the mention of his children last week Stravinsky declared: "God be with them, there shall be no more...
Alec (the "I" of the story) is a rich man's son, nearing 40 but still with no visible means of support other than periodic parental checks. A member of The Brook, most select of Manhattan clubs (where there are "always amusing fellows . . . ready for anything"), Alec divides his time between his country estate and the pleasures of town. He is married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides...