Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month stay that he hoped to extend. "I do think I'd like to live here for the rest of my life," said he. But he said he had some plays he hoped to get produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About those light-hearted broadcasts from Nazi Germany: they were just thoughtless mistakes. Mrs. Wodehouse explained defensively: "He just didn't realize." Wodehouse, bright enough when...
...Boris Godunov. And it was the first production of it in Moscow in twelve years: it was too expensive, too big and too lavish to produce often, particularly during wartime austerity. But when the Bolshoi Theater a year ago decided to revive it, the Soviet Government didn't spare the rubles. Early last year Producer L. Baratov assembled his huge cast, began lecturing them on the history and customs of the period (1598-1605). They toured the Kremlin, the Historical Museum and the Novo-Devichi and Donskoi monasteries to absorb the proper atmosphere...
...Czechs would be at Geneva, but they were lukewarm about freer trade. Zdenek Augenthaler, Prague's representative, wanted lower tariffs on the goods the Czechs will spare for the West. But Augenthaler was even more interested in seeing that the new I.T.O. did not discriminate against state trading monopolies...
...Shrinkage of Values. Allen does not spare his fellow comics. "Midgets," he calls them, "living on borrowed minds." This attitude has precluded for Allen hundreds of friendships. His only real intimates are two rusty old iron men of vaudeville, "Uncle Jim" Harkins and "Doc" Rockwell. Uncle Jim acts as his social secretary and general Man Friday; Doc has retired to Southport, Maine, where he tends lobster pots...
Back from World War I as a frail youth with a bad lung, Lynch slept through a spare-time course at the University of Washington journalism school. The first term, he says, all he learned was to double-space his copy. After six months of it, his news-writing instructor called him aside and said: "Mr. Lynch, you are wasting your time here. Your English is horrible. Your only possibility is as a sports writer...