Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tremendous ambition from his father, a Wall Street broker and amateur ornithologist who had known the great John James Audubon, had thought his work incomplete and inaccurate, had urged young Rex to paint all the birds of the U. S. and paint them better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West open, as it had not been...
...leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...
Chinese started looting and burning indiscriminately, Admiral Shen adopted the desperate expedient of having signs put up directing prospective looters to Japanese premises, in the hope that they would spare others. Finally the Admiral fled pell-mell with Tsingtao's Chinese police...
...violin-making capital of the world. He married twice, produced eleven children, waxed wealthy enough to buy wife No. 1 a splendid funeral, lived to be 93, and kept on making finer & finer violins up to the year of his death. Contemporaries described him as a long, spare figure of a man who spent virtually all of his waking hours at a workbench littered with the tools of his craft...
...considerable polish as he revolved through a number of phases of the publishing business, Paul Gallico was born to an Italian musician in a boarding house. He worked his way through Columbia University as a North River stevedore, Metropolitan Opera usher, gym teacher and German tutor. In his spare hours he played baseball, football, was acting captain of the 1921 Columbia crew after a two-year hitch in the Navy. Somehow he found plenty of time to turn out pulp magazine stories and short newspaper fiction...