Word: spared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door of his office building, his office door, the third intermediate door ; to his typewriter, office desk, locker. Cigarets have to be kept in doubly-locked separate chests, and the jeep has to be locked six ways from breakfast, involving keys to the steering wheel, ignition, hood, spare tire, gas tank and tool locker...
Garry Essendine (Clifton Webb) is the center-and usually the storm center-of a brittle theatrical group. He has a spare room for attractive women who have "lost their latchkeys"; he loves 'em & leaves 'em-sighing for more; the last thing in his flat he would part with is his mirror; and he insists that he wants quiet but thrives on scenes...
When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...
Still speculating about "the little private bar" West declared was his destination in his farewell note, Christy called upon "the typical Harvard student" to think about where he would go if looking for a beer on a warm October afternoon with only a couple of hours to spare...
...breakfast tables with no Dahl, but a printed box asking readers if he was missed. Four thousand readers promptly sent testy notes to the editor, saying yes. The omission has never been repeated, although Dahl seldom makes his 8:30 p.m. deadline with more than minutes to spare. When Dahl goes on vacation, the Herald exhumes his best sketches and reprints them. Rather than miss a day, it had him draw left-handed for six weeks when he broke his right arm five years ago. Since draftsmanship is the least of Dahl's assets, the switchover didn...