Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free rides on ten Treasury issues, has each year doubled in this and other ways the capital she put into the Government market. She speculates with the help of complicated graphs, for which her husband, Reed Richard Porter of Irving Trust Co., has to do the arithmetic. In what spare time remains, she plays the piano, goes to the movies, and writes fiction that thus far has impressed no publisher...
...Dons Delight is a series of dialogues among imaginary dons in an imaginary Oxford College (Simon Magus), taking place at 50-year intervals from 1588 to 1938. In the early passages, Monsignor Knox does not spare his readers the "brutish superstitions" and the "idolatrous mass-altars" which were the phrases of anti-Catholics. Nor, later, does he disdain to write comedy...
...cure children of lying, help them gain selfesteem, spare the rod, be patient, tell no lies (even "white" ones). "Thoroughgoing truthfulness comes hard and it generally comes late...
...knocked down a young girl and stole her hair for his wig. Another libelously linked him with the "Mohawks," a gang of London roughnecks who rolled stray females in barrels and cut off the noses of wandering drunks. Actually he seems to have been an obscure, spry, spare little man with a "brown complexion and dark brown-coloured hair ... a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes and a large mole near his mouth...
...scorer for the Funsters was defenseman Jim Gerrity who tallied three times, while Phil Downes and Jim Doughty each scored once. In the fourth game, Daughaday and Hamill each scored once for Leverett, while Gorham and Folsom, a spare, each netted one for the Coasters...