Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a pastorate in Oakland, Calif., and Congregationalist Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, who used to be Calvin Coolidge's pastor in Washington, and was brought to San Francisco in 1933 by a potent Californian, onetime Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur. Methodist Lowther is tall, hawk-faced, spare, a liberal and a pacifist. Congregationalist Pierce is plump, jolly, a Wartime chaplain (see col. 2), American Legionary and 100% Republican. While Dr. Lowther was struggling to make a go of his hotel-church. Dr. Pierce, who said he "never liked a church without a problem," was engaged in increasing...
Last week, with the end of the two-year period only two weeks away, the women held their plebiscite, settled their suffrage question once & for all. With more than 100,000 votes to spare, they became the first females in the Orient to hoist themselves to political parity with their menfolk...
...heavy were Leftist losses in the recent surprise offensive around Madrid that the Valencia Government could not spare a single division to help their Basque allies last week. They could spare some planes, 32 of them with Russian and French pilots arrived at Bilbao to help the defense...
...last 20 years, Stravinsky has wandered far from his original inspiration. His musical concepts are now spare, straightforward, logical. When, in 1927. music-minded Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge commissioned him to write a ballet, he decided to make it "white." A "white ballet" does not use colored costumes or gaudy scenery, puts its emphasis on the dancing. Stravinsky was so anxious to keep Apollon Musagete free of color that he scored it only for strings...
...Angeles clothing store proprietor. She studied piano; her brother Mike (Marco) fiddle. Together they entertained at lodge parties and picnics, graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport the company back to San Francisco. The note was paid...