Word: buy
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...last week, over the relief bills to be enacted for drought-stricken farmers and the industrial unemployed. The House wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President's hands, 2) other Senate...
...berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating them, selling stock in the merger at four or five times its actual value...
...Foremost golfer, probably of all time . . . winner of open and amateur championships of Great Britain and the United States . . . [refused] to accept a gift of $50,000 to buy a home . . . unofficial ambassador . . . retiring nature...
...lady for your wife take, to pay her bills, praise her steak? To honor and love and keep her well from the marriage hour to the funeral bell? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when the baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss...
...array of pegbottom trousers, long-beaked caps, bulldog shoes. Second scene is laid in front of Reunion Hall, a considerably fresher looking edifice than the building by that name today. The boys break into a song: The Proctor likes Whiskey. Let's get him frisky-Maybe he will buy drinks for the crowd. . . . As is customary in Triangle shows, the script is peppered with undergraduate lampoons on the Princeton faculty, curriculum and social system, which are more interesting to student audiences and immediate relatives of the cast than to the public at large. A new high...