Word: treating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bookkeeping. One conservative sign observers noted in this year's budget message-a tendency to treat figures more as they were treated under Coolidge and Hoover. The budget for fiscal 1936 calls for expenditures of $1,622,000,000 for the Government's running expenses, an increase of nearly 50% over fiscal 1934. One part of this increase is caused by the restoration of Government pay cuts, by vastly more Government employment under the New Deal, by larger appropriations for the Navy. Another part is caused by more realistic bookkeeping. Example: $200,000,000 is added...
Connoisseurs of Westerns will not be deluded by its talent into thinking that West of the Pecos is any special treat. It concerns a Colonel Lambeth who finding his wife dead when he returns from the Civil War, goes to San Antonio with his daughter Terrill (Martha Sleeper), and two of their retainers. Masquerading as a boy, Terrill meets a cowboy, Pecos Smith (Richard Dix). Pecos helps the Lambeths settle in their new home. The Comanches whoop upon the hills, the rustlers shake their guns and Colonel Lambeth guzzles his mint-juleps. At the end of the picture, the rustlers...
...become more catholic as they go through the University. For example, a spaghetti done in true Italian style, seasoned with garlic and other herbs, and plenty of full flavored choose may be turned down by a boy just of school, but as a Senior he may consider it a treat. Similarly with meats which are all improved by being "hung" the proper length of time unfrozen before being served. The schoolboy often refuses "hung" meat as being spoiled; the older man demands it and complains if it is too fresh. Also likes in hours of dining change as well...
...Every 30 years or so Harvard University graduates a Robert Treat Paine. The quinquennial catalogue lists seven: in 1749, 1779, 1822, 1855, 1882, 1888, 1922. First and most famed was Robert Treat Paine who signed the Declaration of Independence. His son and namesake became a poet. From the day he answered in couplet the satirical thrust of a classmate "his blessed ruin was inevitable." He fell in with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father...
...Boston today are two descendants of the famed old family named Robert Treat Paine-one sometimes known as "Plain Paine" to distinguish him from Robert Treat Paine II who married a Cabot and lives in Brookline. Robert Treat II, great-great-grandson of the Paine who signed the Declaration, graduated from Harvard in 1882 "to devote himself to the management of corporations, largely in the line of electrical manufactures." He was elected a director of General Electric Co. in 1894. two years after the company was formed and in the middle of the worst year in its history. Last week...