Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completely wrapped up in his music, he spends all his spare time arranging. When he was asked if the found it difficult to arrange, he said that "music just comes naturally to me when I sit down and play. I guess...
This situation is certainly not ideal There are students who want tickets and cannot get them. Yet the scalpers have them, and to spare because they have ready capital, quick turn-over, and fabulous profits. The sooner this barnacle horde is strongly discouraged from its activities around Harvard, the more persons will witness the game who are entitled to and really deserve to see it. To all it must be plain: the Injuns on the Square this week are not from Dartmouth, and they are not on the square...
Though Mrs. Spadea has little spare time for advising You, her success as an artist has made You a reality. Publisher Spadea proudly acknowledges that most of the $55,000 Spadea interest in You came from his wife. Another $45,000. invested by 31 unnamed individuals, none by cosmetics people, insures You two years' life...
...searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol to mark other Arab homes, announced: "We are prepared to spare one house for each rifle returned...
...stirred. His face was grave with resentment. . . . 'The Lord has endowed you with many good qualities, Salotti,' decreed the Holy Father in acid and peremptory terms, 'but he denied you a clinical eye.' " Likewise, to a monk who made bold to admonish Pius XI to spare his legs: "Do not be so engrossed about my lameness. . . . God and myself take that responsibility...