Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree . . . to the spare, skeletal style of such late poems as Death: Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again, A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts derision upon Supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone - Man has created death...
...writer in his spare time (From Nudity to Raiment), Hiler was also a great cafe sitter with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. He knew the Left Bank like the bottom of his glass. In 1934, when the dollar fell so low that a whiskey neat cost 72? in Paris, Hiler announced, "The position is untenable," and started home...
...faced, near-sighted Gus Anderson, who charges batteries for the electric trucks of Pilgrim Laundry, Inc. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Gus began his work 25 years ago for $25 a week and today, in his overalls and heavy shoes, he looks as though he didn't have a spare dime. But he is typical of Pilgrim's 550 employes, 535 of whom own 75% of the stock of their $1,344,700 company...
Kerins disclosed last night that his brother, Charles, was going to draw cartoons lampooning members of the school committee, and that the drawings would be circulated Friday of next week. "We will not spare the Charley McCarthys of the school committee," he warned ominously...
...placed almost entirely on practical exposition. Professor Morrison has recognized this in his statement accompanying the new requirements. With a more coherent program and greater uniformity of method envisioned, there should be closer cooperation between section men. And, since the course is no longer to be carried as a spare tire on the Freshman's schedule, its standards should be raised...