Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...murdering his sweetheart. Commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment last week, the Realmleader observed: "Keim was not wholly responsible for his crime." Nazi jurists commented that the Keim killing was nonpolitical, recalled that Realmleader Hitler has never interfered with a political beheading. Notably Der Reichsfuhrer refused to spare beauteous Baroness Benita von Berg, famed aristocratic German stooge of a clever Polish spy (TIME...
...youth, so homely that even his mother smiled when a friend said that, if not the best tennis player in the world, her son was certainly the ugliest, young Budge is likeable but undistinguished off a tennis court. He barely graduated from high school a year ago, spends his spare time imitating Bing Crosby or the Mills Brothers, drinks nothing stronger than milk. On the court, the quality that marks his game is the one in which he sometimes seems most lacking elsewhere -savoir-faire. The quality which he will need most if he is to develop into a Class...
...Supreme Court Building in Washington, into which Sculptor Aitken put the faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high-ceilinged workshops, spare of furniture, full of great lumps of stone, clay, plaster. One piece, a huge statue of James Monroe, ordered and paid for by a Venezuelan President who lost his job unexpectedly, stood around for 30 years until the Piccirillis gave it to the State of Virginia. On another piece the Christian...
...with a handsome brunet who is in love with his wife who is in love with another man. The blonde (Jean Muir) is a successful Manhattan florist. The brunet (John Boles) is a successful Manhattan attorney. The wife (Ruthelma Stevens) is a throaty creature who spends most of her spare moments in her lover's arms while pretending she is attending a dying mother...
...small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving New Yorkers. She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men & women who swarm the stage singing choruses, gesticulating vivaciously, OH-ing and AH-ing in mechanical unison. Now a tall, spare woman of 70, Maria Savage calls herself "the world's oldest chorus girl...