Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief workers to build roads, construct dams to save water and through the Bureau of Biological Survey to restore refuges for wild fowl. With $20 a month grants and loans to buy forage, RA will help others to rehabilitate themselves. AAA will help them with $10,000.000 worth of seed loans, with some $30,000.000 to buy livestock. And NYA will provide financial aid so that their children will not have to leave school...
Marcel Duchamp has hardly painted a picture since. Carrying French cynicism to almost pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable...
Seven hours later the excursion arrived at Kingston, N. Y. where Father Divine has lately acquired a "Promised Land," some 1,000 acres of farmland worth $160,000. Plan is to settle the Promised Land with Divine disciples who do not mind field work. While Kingstonites gawped, the Divine excursionists debarked, formed a parade in which one of Father Divine's touring cars, with a stuffed white dove on the radiator cap, was preceded by mounted Negroes in berets and riding togs, followed by female "angels" in green and white satin, wearing banners blazoned "Father Divine is God." Pennons...
...other reason, "Hollywood Hotel" is notable because it is credited with having wangled $500,000 worth of free cinema talent since its inception, through the persistence of Gossip Parsons. Paying no money to weekly guest stars, Miss Parsons is supposed to bring ungenerous cinemactors into line through their fear of unfavorable publicity in the Hearstpapers. One of Hollywood's most derided and dreaded characters, chunky, many-chinned "Lolly" Parsons gives in her column an astounding daily show of uncritical gush. Great & good friend of William Randolph Hearst, Miss Parsons also professed great affection for Hollywood's grande dame...
...mortgage the house he owned in Reno. Finally he borrowed $1,000 without security from a generous friend, made the down payment and bought equipment. Crudely he dug out three sacks of ore, trekked them out by packhorse and sent them to the San Francisco Mint. They were worth $84.45. His ore assayed at the bonanza rate of $1,495 gold and 20 oz. of silver per ton. If the Jumbo vein held out, George Austin was a very rich...