Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip to the U. S. M. Dubonnet fluttered about the apartment warding off reporters. "Under the present circumstances," he explained, "it seems reasonable to understand that my wife cares to make no statement. I am accompanying her to New York tomorrow. ... I am doing all in my power to spare her. . . ." Once before, when their secret marriage was announced in 1926, M. Dubonnet had spared the best dressed woman in Europe from the blows of a stick in the hands of his irate mother, who objected to her new daughter-in-law's notoriety. At 15 Jean Donaldson, daughter...
...Ringling tradition for some member of the family to accompany the show. Old John Ringling, last of the founding brothers, has been too ill to do so for the past two years. As a circusman, Robert Ringling will spend his first season helping the publicity department. In his spare moments he hopes to do some work with the Ringling musical clowns...
...fever, septic sore throat. Last week she did not want to stop. New York physicians agreed that her work should not be interrupted. Dr. Williams' famed chief, Dr. Williams Hallock Park, who resisted a retirement move when he reached 70 last December, did not see how he could spare her. Said he: "We have very good bacteriologists in the department, but they haven't the breadth of view of a director...
...sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results are not forthcoming from this plea for succor we threaten--and it is no idle threat--to descend on masse on Fair Harvard and scourge the place with measles; and we have measles to spare. Woe therefore to the stiff-necked and unmerciful! We shall make Harvard the abomination of desolation, laid low with measles. Look you to it! James LeB. Boyle, II, '36 Thomas G. Ratcliffe '35 J. H. Davidson 2G.B. T. E. Naughten '34 M. deC. Crawford '37 S. S. Taft '34 Irving Greenblatt...
...respectful distance as they trailed her up to the fifth floor. There they made hardly a dent in the crowd already on hand at Macy's leisure school. Purpose of this school was to show some 30.000 New Yorkers per day what to do with the spare time that was supposedly theirs under NRA codes of shorter hours and higher pay. The Advisory Board of Macy's show included President Butler of Columbia and Chancellor Chase of New York University. Presidents Dodds of Princeton and Angell of Yale sent solemn letters of endorsement...