Word: spared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists would turn [moderate Marxism or Democracy] into a radical form. . . . Well, we will take up the struggle against this insanity! [thunderous cheers] Not because we are in love with Capitalism-I am myself a child of the lower classes [deafening huzzahs]-but because we want to spare the people. . . . We will rebuild the German Reich by tenacious work! . . . The rise of the German people cannot be prevented...
Cecilia, attractive and intelligent young widow, was not exactly heartless but she had little affection to spare. The person she liked most was Emmeline, near-sighted but charming girl with whom she shared a London house when she was not traveling. Both Emmeline and Cecilia were attractive to men and went out a great deal, seldom together. Cecilia thought of marrying again but knew what was what, investigated matrimonial candidates with care. Emmeline. touchingly business-like in her travel agency, was blind as a newborn infant when if came to love. When Markie, clever bounder Cecilia had already seen through...
...rounds of ammunition, 1,200 rifles, 282 Japanese officers & men, 16 mountain guns, 14 field guns and 13 machine guns. To this Chinese-rumored victory was added the assertion that "20 of the captured Japanese were executed on the spot though $100,000 gold was offered to spare their lives...
...Japanese with drawn short swords rushed a lecture platform from which he was speaking. Some time later 13 members of a Japanese nationalist assassination league tried to kill him in his own home, were sent sprawling by four faithful servants who had been studying jiu-jitsu in their spare time against just such an emergency. Shinave Ozaki, one of his quarter-British daughters,* smuggled him out of the house in one of her kimonos. Since then Dr. Ozaki has lived abroad, in Britain and the U. S., lecturing on disarmament. Month ago his wife died in London. Dr. Ozaki, preparing...
...figured out. He was tired of fighting his bouncing old Philistine of a father, candy tycoon of Springfield, Ohio; tired of trying unsuccessfully to get any more money out of him. He had been through the War, had been married and divorced. Last night he had spent his last spare sou. Not for any tragic reason but because there seemed to be nothing else to do he planned to step out of his hired boat into the water of the little Riviera harbor...