Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, high-strung Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, big boss of the young Chinese Nationalist Government, worries mightily about the old Chinese virtues of his people. What time he can spare from Communism, Famine, Flood, and Japan he devotes to a moral crusade of his own invention known as the New Life Movement. Neatly codified, the N. L. M. contains such rules...
Year ago Artist Soglow, 33, bought a farm at Ossining, N. Y., where he spends his spare time playing croquet. Tiny, he has a tiny wife named Ann, a tiny daughter named Tono. Not exclusively a smartchart illustrator, he is a political pink, has contributed many a socially-conscious drawing to the radical New Masses...
...Fine Arts finally attracted one John Smiukse. Born in Latvia 26 years ago, John Smiukse went to sea, jumped ship in New York harbor seven years ago and has been making a precarious living as a house painter in the Bronx while trying to paint pictures in his spare time...
Only two independents with cash to spare are Nash and Packard. Old Charles Williams Nash has in the past four years paid out in dividends some $17,000,000 more than he earned, yet even now his Treasury holds better than $25,000,000 in cash & governments. Entrenched behind this hoard, Mr. Nash is not expected to listen to any merger terms other than his own. Alvan Macaulay of Packard has about $14,000,000 in cash & governments. Messrs. Nash & Macaulay can still afford to consider their emotions in any scheme involving the loss of corporate identity...
...failed to understand this antique joke will not be historically enlightened by Twentieth Century's brief biography of the greatest goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost always funny...