Word: spares
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machinery of government is often halted while the chief executive of the State lays a corner stone; but it is very seldom that a busy governor can spare ten minutes of the people's time to write a personal letter of encouragement to a small and unknown invalid. That is what Governor Fuller has done, however, and it is safe to say that little Eddie O'Neil of Attleboro will treasure till his dying hour the card and note that reached him on his fifth birthday...
Arthur Train's double decision, to give up law and to change his style of writing, was a difficult one to make. That he has been successful is simply a proof of a determination to succeed which has followed him through life. Having written many books in spare hours, having become known as a writer of stories of law, lawyers, crime, its detection and of humor, he found himself at middle age determined to break with his habits of life and to become a sort of American Galsworthy. He wrote, therefore, His Children's Children,* which caught critical...
...intelligent reader must have all the facts. If he wants them over the radio, he must have plenty of spare time, which most men have...
...readily admitted that she intended to kill M. Krassin. "It is shameful," she remonstrated, "to see him here in Paris. If some one doesn't kill him he will kill others. He will cause a revolution in France, as in Russia. I want to kill him to spare this country the horrors I have seen. In Russia I saw my own brother killed. The famine was terrible. Mothers ate their children, and I want to spare France these horrors...
...Ghosts" was first produced by this group of professionals at the National Theatre in New York City before 700 students of the drama, working under Professor Clayton Hamilton of Columbia University. It was the result of eight weeks of intensive work, done all in spare moments and while "Cyrano de Bergerac" was scoring its great New York success. Mr. Walter Hampden, the producer and star of "Cyrano" aided the actors with advice and criticism...