Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sparrows. ..."So the sweet and often feeble voice of old Somerville Hague trickled like lymph through the June day. At 8 in the morning he began. At 8 in the evening, feeling that he had expressed himself, he bundled off home. Next day, Mr. George Bernard Shaw used a spare five minutes to write a letter to the London Times. Said he: "The Memorial is unquestionably the real thing, with all the power of stone, the illusion of strenuous passion, that live design can give. . . . I've a great deal of sympathy with the people who hate the Epstein...
THAT NICE YOUNG COUPLE-Francis Hackett - Boni, Liveright ($2.00). Floundering fearfully through the litter of spare adjectives, similes and metaphors that has been accumulating in his office for years, Critic Hackett of The New Republic and elsewhere finally gets his first novel out in the open and into sustained motion on Page 245, where childless Eleanor Byrd Beale from the Middle West is about to meet Demi-Artist Stephen Tannay from the South, fall really in love for the first time in her life and be willfully unfaithful to her husband, Lawyer Edward Beale of Brooklyn, Harvard and Manhattan...
...Just where is the line to be drawn in printing news ? . . . For instance, a newspaper might for conscience' sake spare a man from the gossip of his neighbors concerning his financial inability, yet tear out his vitals by publishing the disgrace of a loved one. A woman's financial standing is held inviolate, but the same instrument which protects her name in that respect would not suppress her moral downfall if public record were made of the fact...
...heat of the 220 at Philadelphia in the Intercollegiates, but lost to him in the semi-finals. Yale's hopes may be defeated in both these events. A few unexpected occurrences like these would overcome the Blue's ten or 15-point advantage and give the Crimson something to spare...
Tried Printing in Spare Time...