Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on to explain that the shares had been left to him for life in order to endow a Daimler automobile. "I did not fancy myself as the owner of a motor car," continued the Prime Minister. "It was against the simplicity of my habits. It took a long time to be persuaded and letters are in existence which reveal our minds. In the end I agreed with this arrangement. A sum of money was to be invested in my name and the income I am to enjoy during my lifetime so long as I keep...
...Sheridan, who has read the book, finds it a display of sentimentality, abounding in super-adjectives, containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl." She regrets that Marie did not write of some lovely Rumanian legend, that her Russian blood did not endow her with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does...
Having stoned the reporters and the professors for twenty years, Mencken and Nathan now squawk for their help as they begin to endow America with a first-rate magazine...
...probably a reputable scientist, but cranks innumerable have flourished on this same subject. Vide Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, "Psy.D., Ph.D.," of Rochester, N. Y., sponsor of the "American Super-Race Foundation," who came to Manhattan to hold a congress of superior Caucasians, and to raise $50,000,000 to endow his efforts to salvage the human race. He claims to have determined the sex of 95 babies in utero, including his own two children. His eugenic program is his own secret, for, says he: "I have to earn my living." But in due time mankind will be regenerated...
...living by marrying American heiresses. Generally women marry nowadays to get means of subsistence. All this would be replaced by a system whereby the state would register a couple desiring to establish a family. The state would insist that the baby come up to a certain weight and would endow motherhood...