Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance save appear stupid, but Rex Weber and Impersonator Albert Carroll are called upon often and not in vain. Mr. Weber vastly amuses his audience by prodigious feats of ventriloquism, then turns serious and leads a band of breadline tatterdemalions in a genuinely stirring ballad called "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Mr. Carroll is at various times a spiritual medium, Lynn Fontanne, James John Walker...
...million prisoners belonging to more than 30 different nations, of relieving "1,250,000 Greek, 1,000,000 Russian, 300,000 Armenian and some tens of thousands of Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean, Bulgarian and Turkish refugees." When Death came for him suddenly in 1930 at 69, Fridtjof Nansen, tall and spare as ever but his hair snow white, was sitting in his garden, thinking thoughts that no biographer can ever tell...
...classes have been held for several years, and have proved an increasingly popular form of exercise for men who have little time to spare. Calisthenics and exercises for all parts of the body are carried on with musical accompaniment...
Scowling hugely, New York City's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Norris recently stormed into the "House of Breathless Men," as morgue attendants euphemistically call their nose-stinging structure. On Dr. Norris' mind was an order from Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee-who, to spare taxes and borrow money from bankers, is trying to cut city operating costs-to reduce his department budget by 20%. Before Dr. Norris' eyes was the barren poverty of his morgue office-a small room, cheap furniture, a microscope, reagent bottles. The floor is bare. But in an adjacent laboratory...
...novel in a big way. His story barges indomitably on & on through 330 pages with never a trace of weariness on Author Revere's part. (He, too, lived a double life-with his book-while writing and rewriting it secretly at his New Jersey home, in spare moments over four years, giving up to his muse even golf at his beloved Baltusrol.) So heavily firm is his hand upon his characters that it is doubtful if critics who call his work crude will ruffle Author Revere's equanimity...