Word: benefiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of your neighbors think with you. But I must say that my reaction to the results of the balloting is a keen disappointment in seeing that college men are not willing to forego the doubtful pleasure of becoming 'tight' in order that the community as a whole may benefit...
Beside libraries, restaurants, cocktail bars and royal robing rooms, there exist in the mazes of the Houses of Parliament a number of bathrooms, complete with tubs and towels, for the benefit of statesmen who wish to purify themselves between debates. Several months ago white-haired George Lansbury, total abstainer, First Commissioner of Public Works, suddenly decided that it was only right and proper for women M. P.'s to have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also. With some difficulty and no little expense he set aside one of the Parliamentary bathrooms, tastefully shrouded it in cretonne, appointed...
Thrice has the Metropolitan Museum of Art been notably, spectacularly enriched by the munificent bequests of great and rich collectors. The John Pierpont Morgan and Benjamin Altman collections, both given in 1913, spread paintings, carvings, sculpture, jewelry, porcelains, tapestries, furniture through long galleries for the benefit of the U. S. public. And all last week thousands of people shuffled back and forth through four galleries, two corridors, to see the latest, possibly the greatest of the museum's gifts. At one bound the Metropolitan, already an imposing pile, became one of the world's greatest museums...
...recipients to be named by the respective headmasters, places the grants in the hands of men qualified to judge more capably of the qualifications of these prospective Freshmen. Much more than the trial-and-error method which the University of necessity now assumes the new plan will have the benefit of first-hand experience to make the awards on a basis of merit. By its very nature a scholarship is not financial aid alone: It is a monetary reward for merit, distributed to those who most need it. Both of these new rulings by the Scholarship Committee represent a forward...
Ralph Capone, Chicago gangster, brother of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, sent out word that the city's petty "chiselers" (extortioners) must cease' annoying theatrical folk for "benefit money." The Capone order was occasioned by Actress Francine Larrimore's receiving a demand for $1,000. Eddie Cantor, Musicomedy Clown, denied that he had been chiseled into singing at Mr. Capone's Cotton Club...