Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 200 European concerts his playing of Bach, Mozart, Schumann had gained in nobility and strength. And he braved the showiness of Liszt so capably that his audience might never have guessed, had he not mentioned it to an interviewer beforehand, that he had contemplated revising his program to spare his right thumb which, outstretched, had lately collided with his garden wall in Wiesbaden...
...battles in the Near East than he ever did through his own soldiering. This reporting was done for the Toronto Star in the early '20s. Hemingway was by that time married (to Hadley Richardson, childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris. In his spare time he diligently wrote the short stories later to be published as Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923), and in our time (1924). Both were issued by small advance-guardist presses in Paris. Neither created any stir. Since, copies of the Paris edition ot in our time have brought as high...
...best-sellers as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind first-line critics have contributed little except a few quarantine signs'. Those signs, mostly ignored, warned generally against what Aldous Huxley calls "that doughy, woolly, anodyne writing [which] ... we read because we suffer when we have time to spare and no printed matter with which to plug the void . . . because the-second nature of habituated readers abhors a vacuum. . . ." That readers continue to put their faith in publishers' ads rather than critics' warnings was well evidenced by the case of the fat historical romance, And So-Victoria...
Born also of political hopes, the World-Herald had enjoyed a brighter financial history when Henry Doorly became its publisher-by-marriage when his father-in-law died in 1934. Spare, high-principled Senator Gilbert Monell Hitchcock was one of the group of bankers and politicians who founded the World in 1885. After its merger with the Herald in 1889 he slowly bought out his flagging partners and whipped banker-creditors who tried to dictate the paper's policy. Under Senator Hitchcock the World-Herald became an influential organ of liberal Democracy, with William Jennings Bryan its editor...
...William M. Mann, entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, was made director of Washington's National Zoological Park. Dr. Mann is now 51, slight and dark. He also has thin hair and a holdover passion for ants. When he is not hunting ants in his spare hours, he is inclined to read anything from detective stories to incunabula. Fond also of the human animal, he loves parties and has been known to seat a distinguished scientist at dinner next to a circus freak. Director Mann's system of running his zoo is one of complete democracy. He insists...