Word: spare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introductory note Hardy shies at critics who unanimously pronounce him "gloomy and pessimistic." But the generality is at least excusable, such is the lugubriousness of his humor: item, "The Three Tall Men" of the present volume. In his spare moments a man is making a coffin that shall be long enough for him to be neither bent nor snapped. He finishes a first coffin?it is needed for his tall brother; he finishes a second-for his tall son. He starts a third. Then?...
...Perhaps you play poker in your spare time?" asked a news imp. Still unruffled, the Agent General answered, "There's not much of that in Berlin now, but I do manage to get sufficient relaxation...
...left wingman, will probably alternate with Captain John Tudor '29, since M. H. Stanley '30 is reported to have just recuperated from a slight illness. Harwood Ellis '31 will be on hand to share the duties of goal guarding with Elkins. H. D. Everett '31 will act as a spare wingman...
...Nunnery? Boars' Hill, with a view of Oxford on one side and the Berkshire Downs on the other, or Cummor Hurst, or Shotover Hill, are all within easy walking distance. Short cycle rides will open an even more extensive region to the wayfarer with three or four hours to spare. Ewelme and the Chilterns, Sinodun Camp and the Downs, Dorchester with its lovely Abbey-church, lie in one direction; in another is Minster Lovell, on the way to the Cotswolds and those charming hidden villages of the Stone Country; in another direction, past Old Marston, where Cromwell planned his campaign...
Motives: his wife is with child by his brother; his mother has observed this. Thus-out of love or pity for the invalid-mother, brother or wife would have reason to spare the invalid the pain of disillusion. Suffice it to say here that love was the motive; and you can easily pick the murderer...