Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George's library would feature a well-thumbed encyclopedia, and there would be tools in the basement. But George would spend most of his spare time attending to his duties as the unsung treasurer of the Community Chest. The Windsor household would revolve around their well-mannered children, and the elder at least would repay her parents' devotion by leading her local Scout troop and becoming captain of the field-hockey team...
Hollywood? "It's a place for very, very old people to go and die," said Waugh. Everything is just imitation except the cemeteries. "They are the only real thing ... I spent most of my spare time in the cemetery. I very much enjoyed Forest Lawn. I loved the music. . . ." Now, aglow with the memory of one of California's most sumptuous spectacles, he planned a sort of novelette with a cemetery setting. A poet who flops as a writer for the cinema (British, said Waugh) gets a job in a dog cemetery. He falls for a girl...
...Nadia Boulanger is a spare, prim, grey-haired woman whose piercing eyes are frozen behind pince-nez. She dresces severely in black, brightened by a sunburst clip or a silver chain. When she talks, which is often, her hands are as eloquent as her speech...
...hope, the Student Council last fall asked them to list their activities at Phillips Brooks House. So far the request has been more honored in the breach than the observance; there have been few listings and fewer consultations. With the post-war shortage of space hampering spare-time projects, there is little reason for deliberately throttling any support that might accrue to marginal groups by over-saturating the evening hours. The remedy lies with the organizations themselves and in a little planning...
...Lieut. Governor Oscar Rennebohm, 57, was sworn in as acting governor. A wealthy, self-made man who built a bankrupt drug store into a prosperous chain, he is a political neophyte. He owns a palatial, 14-room house overlooking Lake Mendota, during the summer spends most of his spare time on his 175-acre dairy farm. He is closely associated with the G.O.P. machine. Said Boss Coleman: "He will serve the state very well...