Word: borrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been well pleased. But more than once he would have harrumphed at the self-consciousness of the child actors. Hollywood usually looks to professional youngsters for parts like Tom Sawyer. But Producer David O. Selznick has no child stars on his own roster, and had no wish to borrow and boost one under contract to someone else. When he put Tom Sawyer on his schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed 25,000 children before it ran to earth in St. Raymond's Parochial School in New York's Bronx. There a year...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to enroll with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service as Founder No. 1 of his National Foundation to Combat Infantile Paralysis (enlistment fee: $1), he found he had no money, was obliged to borrow from Press Secretary Stephen Early...
...While the loan might frustrate complainant's hopes of a profitable investment," droned Justice Sutherland, "it would not violate any legal right. . . . Each of the municipalities in question has authority to construct its proposed plant and distribution system in competition with petitioner, and to borrow money, issue bonds and receive grants for that purpose." The Court further announced that it would dispose of the Duke Case on similar grounds...
...this debt was still outstanding and the RFC held as collateral securities worth $89,279,610 at the present market. In petitioning for an additional $8,233,000 loan-on this same collateral-to be due in 1942, the B. & O. announced that it had been unable to borrow from any other source and that "with these funds the company will be in a position to maintain its property to the present standard of efficiency, avoid the reduction in maintenance forces which might otherwise be required, and assure the employment of maintenance forces of not less than...
...label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong, most jerry-built, C. Day Lewis; most prosy...