Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basil, a tall, spare tweedy fellow, not only exhibited a rather devilish pride, but took a loftily critical view of their performance. Listening to the volume of booing, he said rather sniffily, "I am not at all impressed." A reporter asked him for his wife's first name. Said he: "Do you know your first name, my dear?" She said it was Cynthia, and he beamed. "That," he cried, "is why I married her. She has a terrific sense of humor...
Miss Freud warned against strict parents who cannot remember their own childhoods, overlenient parents who wish to spare their children unhappiness, and "analytical" parents who understand their children's drives and give them great license, but do not prepare the children for good citizenship...
Some of us consider Lattimore's action treasonable, many are confused by it; none consider it a coincidence without meaning. If your writer does not care to draw conclusions or wait for facts, you might at least spare the College any future Chesire cat editorials, which have neither logic nor information, but only a ruddy, ruddy hue. John M. Sink...
...language so fascinated him that, in his spare time, Headmaster Marples of Wolstanton Grammar School at Newcastle under Lyme has been jotting down campus words and finding out how they came to be. Last week Britons were chuckling over the result: a thin, bright little book entitled University Slang...
...Mountains," says proselyting Bill Douglas, "have a decent influence on men." Of Men and Mountains is his story of a spare-time lifetime spent in climbing and fishing the Cascades of Washington and the Wallowas of Oregon. It is also an original and winning statement of a hand-hewn personal philosophy...