Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opera through its tricks with very little rehearsal, often manages to do so with none at all. Schooled in a standard series of movements and gestures for each role, a good average opera singer can be fitted into a production at a moment's notice, like a spare part in a machine. With a good assortment of such spare parts an operatic director can assemble operas almost as rapidly as mechanics assemble automobiles. And the spare parts being more or less standard the world over, he can Jend particularly fine spare parts, famous Siegfrieds, Rigolettos or Toscas, to other...
...into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more efficiently, with less supervision, in the small community with pleasant surroundings. The United Automobile Workers may have a hard time getting at them there...
MURDER MAKES A MERRY WIDOW- Robert George Dean-Crime Club ($2). Two private detectives solve the murder of a Midwest newspaper columnist, who in his spare time dabbles in blackmail. Plot: ingenious. Action: swift. Unless a reader is tired of the tough, hard-drinking detectives, a good buy or borrow...
...today most still study Latin, about half Greek. But now all boys must take mathematics, science, French and history. A revolutionary development in this 500-year-old classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes and machines, build bookcases, boats. Symptomatic also of the change in Eton is the fact that in their-weekly one-hour drawing period boys today may draw railway engines if they like, instead of the conventional pair of oranges and a banana...
...Goodman sells insurance, earns about $4,000 a year, is the most celebrated member of the Omaha Field Club where he started as a caddy. Although he is an honorary member of half the organizations of Omaha, he still lives in a furnished room, still spends much of his spare time playing pinochle with his pals in the meat-packing district (where several of his seven brothers, like their father before them, work as meat packers), still goes around with the same girl he went with in 1929-a pretty stenographer, Josephine Kersigo, who makes novenas before his major tournaments...