Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad, the Mauchs were born in 1924. Billy is the older by ten minutes. Their mother, delighted with her product, had them taught to dance before they went to school. By the time they were seven, the little Mauchs were acting on radio and posing for ads in their spare time. Their jobs were comparatively easy because whenever one felt unlike working the other took his place. By the time they got their Warner contract in 1935, the Mauchs had had experience on programs like Lucky Strike. Show Boat and THE MARCH OF TIME. After Anthony Adverse, Bobby Mauch...
...Frederick Henry Prince, Cleveland's Cyrus Eaton, General Motors' Donaldson Brown. None was there. Talking in a corner was Erie R. R.'s Chairman Charles Leininger Bradley but he was obviously on hand to talk to his new bosses. Old Mr. Ball, neat, spare, paternal, stood chatting with newshawks, giving as good as he received, just as he did in Washington when Montana's Wheeler had him on the witness stand in the Senate railroad investigation...
...calling on his 17 men, by taking 50 strikers as unofficial deputies to enforce observance of the laws for peaceful picketing. When some 77 office workers and other non-union employes including a dozen girls went into the plant and operated the parts & service department, shipping out truckloads of spare parts to dealers, the incensed strikers screamed "Bums!" "Scabs!" but did no violence...
Well, I poured out any heart to Madame Blouse: not to question her mathematics, but to ask if she'd spare my losses just in case the system proved an exception with me. She wrote to me to come and see her. So I did. Madame Blouse is a great woman at figures. Before she tried to explain her system she asked if first I didn't want to see her "30 Beautiful Girls 30". So I tightened my purse strings and went to the casino trusting to beginner's luck...
Edward Anderson, an unemployed iron worker from The Bronx, is in the habit of copying newspaper photographs in his spare time, and these, too, were exhibited...