Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same thing happened last year, when Abbott budgeted for a surplus of $30 million and finished the year with nearly $1 billion to spare. Chief reasons for both surpluses: the Canadian business boom and the government's avoidance of direct price and wage controls (insisting, until recently, on strict credit controls...
...Spare the Leaf Mold . . ." But Teacher Peepers is at his timid zaniest when he goes to the classroom. In his special lecture, "Wake Up Your Sluggish Soil" (published originally in Petal & Stem), he concludes: "Spare the leaf mold, spoil the hepatica. Remember, your dirt is the restaurant where your flowers dine." To his students' questions he replies with thoughtful absurdities: "Yes, I think tonsils are useful to some people"; "No, I don't think we know just how fast a dinosaur...
...reproductions in Punch had not done Keene justice. Printed from wood blocks, they were dull and crude compared to the pen & ink originals: flustered old gentlemen and ragged urchins done with fine, soft tones and a master's spare line. Moreover, the public never saw the drawings that Keene did as studies for his cartoons. These were hurried little sketches scratched out on scraps of paper and backs of envelopes: dumpy old ladies sitting spraddled with fatigue, a drunken man slumped in a chair, London swells leaning languidly against a bar. Each took but a few skilled lines...
...show (Cox has done such celebrities as Harvard President James B. Conant, Judge Learned Hand, Dean Acheson), it was plain that he is no mere bread & butter portraitist. The pictures had a carefree, almost dashed-off look: lots of lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added off to one side a quick sketch of her playing in the buff which deftly caught the uninhibited...
...week. Unlike 20th Century-Fox, which last year lopped up to 50% off the pay of its high-bracket personnel (but later restored most of it), M-G-M will not cut the pay of writers or directors. But Schenck left no doubt that the days of big-budget, spare-no-expense pictures were over. Best estimate of the total cutbacks: $10 million a year...