Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing blandly but unsparingly of her friends, their affectations and misfortunes, Mabel Dodge Luhan's account of her grand passion is tolerable because she does not spare herself. Possessive, egocentric, feverishly jealous, she reproached Reed for paying too much attention to Italian architecture. Soon she was reproaching him for paying too much attention to other women, and writing angry letters to feminine friends she suspected of trying to steal him from her. Back in New York Reed dropped her a note: "Goodbye, my darling. I cannot live with you. You smother me. You crush me. You want to kill...
...couldn't spare much time, so he took a night Pullman from Chicago to Memphis, chartered a plane there, came on to Monroe, arriving in time to make his speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors...
...THEM DIE-Shirley Millard- Harcourt, Brace ($1.50). Spare, simply written diary of a young, red-haired U. S. volunteer nurse in French hospitals near the front lines of 1918, in which romantic interludes heighten rather than ease a grisly atmosphere...
Returns showed three other famed Republicans saving their political skins without much to spare. Borah in Idaho and McNary in Oregon, although their States went to Roosevelt, although each faced able campaigners, both pulled through. In Kansas, Arthur Capper, believed to be an easy victor, pulled through...
...wrath flashing about it and ready every moment to singe it and burn it asunder; and you have. . . nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath. . . nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment...