Word: save
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could throw a cat through the cracks in the walls. We whitewashed it, papered it ourselves, and by the time my mother, a very frail woman, had planted simple flowers, the wretched place looked rather charming. Except for actual ploughing, we raised a garden and fed ourselves entirely save for sugar, salt, coffee, and wheat flour. During the War, we did without flour and cane sugar! And we lived exceedingly well. Perhaps TIME doesn't know that R. E. Lee Wilson, who became the largest individual producer of cotton in the world, began life as a sharecropper, and that...
...Athens hotels this week some of the British salesmen felt better when the $7,000,000 destroyer order went to Glasgow shipyards. But Premier Metaxas followed with another move at Britain's expense. To save Greece's dwindling gold reserves he imposed new import restrictions amounting to some $7,000,000 which will mostly operate in Germany's favor. Not indeed since Athenians mulcted Sam Insull had they done such a thorough job. Much credit for the German success went to Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, who has just made a flying Balkan...
...last week Plaintiff Frink, now a crack cinema critic, convulsed her court audience with an account of her life with MacArthur. Their romance began at the water-cooler in the city room of the Chicago Herald & Examiner. He proposed to her in the Old Mill at Coney Island. To save money they were married by his preacher-father. They traveled to Hollywood in one upper berth. There he lolled all day on a beach "getting healthy," lived on her salary. Finally...
...bides his time until he can get the Cabinet post he wants. The Abbé Mionnet, sent to tighten up discipline in a provincial diocese, nearly gets in trouble himself when rumors of his liaison begin to get about. Laulerque, who has joined the secret organization that is to save the peace of Europe, has doubts of his unknown brethren's integrity-doubts which are not dismissed by an attempt on Briand's life, a vague scheme for kidnapping royalty. The two student friends, Jerphanion and Jallez, finish their course, have one last reunion in Jerphanion...
...supervisor, once arranged to have Colorado City, Tex. shot up in his honor when his fortunes stood high. Now he travels from one auto tourist camp to another, looks like Walt Whitman, cherishes a grandiose plan to have grand canals built on both sides of the Continental Divide to save the Old West and solve the unemployment problem...