Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just the sort of tale to send Danish-born Dr. Ellinger hotfooting it to the hills. For years he has been spending all his spare time studying Philippine natives, trying to find "what's underneath when you take off Spanish and American varnish." The Abenlens sounded as unvarnished as any people in the Islands...
...assistant in a Paris gallery, and soon discovered that mere study was not enough; a true expert had to have "a sense" for fakes. One of the greatest connoisseurs he ever met was an uneducated genius who made his living running a brothel. In his spare time he hung questionable paintings on a clothesline in the house, invited Pupil Schoeller to find the fakes. "What!" he would scream when Schoeller made a mistake. "Look here. The whole corner has been painted in-and clumsily at that. See the different false shades?" Schoeller would look again, and sure enough, the entire...
...profession as president (1950-51) of the American Institute of Accountants. A Democrat, he liked Ike but took no active part in the campaign. Blunt, hard-driving Coleman Andrews trod on many a toe as Richmond city comptroller and Virginia state auditor, and friends predict he will spare no toes as the nation's chief tax collector...
...right hand in organizing the C.I.O.'s powerful Steelworkers union. He kept track of administrative detail, helped negotiate contracts, actually ran union affairs in 1941 while Murray was laid low by a heart attack. In 1942 McDonald was elected secretary-treasurer, and then was regularly reelected. In his spare time he played duffer's golf, learned to fly and piloted his own plane, but also worked hard at the union's affairs. He drew up the blueprint for an organizing drive in the South, sat on committees dealing with social security, traveled abroad as a union representative...
...raped his wife before his eyes. But when it comes to the samurai's death, each tells a different version. The bandit insists that the wife egged him into killing her husband by promising herself to the victor. The wife insists that she killed her husband to spare him the shame of her dishonor, and tried to kill herself but lost her nerve. The samurai's story is that his wife begged the bandit to kill him and that the bandit, shocked by such faithlessness, ran away, while the samurai, heartbroken, committed suicide. The film introduced a "true...