Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into jungles. The wildest animal he ever knew hitherto was the comparatively tame and toothless alligator which used sometimes to be allowed to splash comically in the Roney-Plaza Hotel's luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster than Miss O'Sullivan can run and his thick-featured face is what one would expect in a foster brother of wild beasts. He wrestles bravely with animals, stuffed or otherwise, and rides a hippopotamus as though it were a Shetland...
...cliches. As the candid husband. Rene Lefebvre has built up a brilliant characterization in comic pathos. He has cheerfully ground coffee at his wife's command, comforted her. unwittingly, when one of her lovers departed for Brazil. He is so helpless, so friendly that Clo-Clo tries to spare his feelings by not telling the bad news. Marceline returns and in the end, so skillfully has incident been used to characterize his charm, that it is climax enough when Jef never learns of her unfaithfulness at all. Good shot: Marceline, leaning from a window of the Riviera express, listening...
...above current receipts. To make up the difference the committee anticipated a $125,000,000 cut in Government expenses and a $25,000,000 increase in postal income. If all worked well, which it rarely does, the Treasury would squeak through 1933 with $5,000,000 to spare. The new or increased taxes before the House and the estimated revenue from each were...
...public will support it, or if a backer can be found, the Woman's National Symphony Orchestra plans to be a permanent, touring organization. Conductor Leginska will pack up her spare frock-coat then. Violinist Eileen Mayo will abandon the schooner aboard which she lives. Horn-playing Suzanne Howitt will leave the women's club of Teaneck, N. J. Eight other ladies will shoulder their double-basses, pretty Doris Smith her colossal tuba...
...controlled by Yale, Columbia University's Teachers' College, University of Minnesota and Iowa State University, it has a paid circulation of 250,000, was one of the few U. S. magazines to show advertising gains in 1931. Pretending to no authority in pedagogy, Publisher Hecht spends his spare time drawing plans for school playgrounds, school cafeterias...