Word: spare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skeptics muttered. "Can it be?" said they, "With 842 books edited, set up in type-only needing advertising and the grinding of the printing press to sell the output- can it be that Mr. Haldeman-Julius cannot spare the time to sell them? Can it be that the Haldeman-Julius 60-page monthly magazine with a circulation of 400,000 must have all cf Mr. Haldeman-Julius' time? Can it be that the Little Blue Books -of which 75,000,000 have been sold in five years-can no longer be profitable...
...hobby: words. In his spare moments he would seize the Webster dictionary which crowned his desk and therein peruse definitions which he compared with those of the lexicographer, Worcester. This habit bred the rhythm in his conversation "Now Webster says . . . but Worcester maintains...
...income tax on corporations graduated on the amount of income has no logical basis. The theory of a graduated income tax is that it is related to the capacity of the taxpayer to pay. A man with $100,000 can spare a larger proportion of his income than a man with $10,000. This reasoning has no relation whatsoever to corporations...
...seat because of the Lodge group and because of the strength of his Democratic opponent, David I. Walsh. Frederick H. Gillett beat Mr. Walsh last fall by only 25,000 votes although President Coolidge had a 400,000 vote margin in Massachusetts, and Governor Fuller 200,000 votes to spare...
...Manhattan theatre he would doubtless laugh roundly at them. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw. He does not spare expense. There is a notable scene wherein members of the chorus parade in a fur shop, clad in robes, scarfs, peignoirs, polonaises made of the furs of every creature from a seal to a mongoose; good syncopation by the McCarthy sisters; terrible singing by Gordon Dooley; two blackamorons, Miller and Lyles, who ably...