Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doucet the accompaniments. As was the case with Maier & Pattison, the two men have little in common. Wiener is Parisian to the finger tips, loves any city. Doucet spends his spare time on his farm near Bordeaux where he makes wine, raises cows and pigs. Since their arrival in the U. S. Wiener has been able to stomach only the finer kinds of U. S. cooking, such as chicken a la king. Doucet proudly eats griddle cakes & maple syrup, pork & beans...
...buying power. There is so much wheat that people are hungry. So much cotton that folks are half naked. So much housing that in Chicago women are sleeping in parks. . . . Too much of the national income goes into the hands of a few. ... A handful of men with their spare cash could buy the output of all the gold and silver mines of North America and many a sovereign State has a smaller income than the net profit of a single industrial magnate...
...music. . . . The artistic success must be left to the critical judgment of the musician, the artist and the interested audience." Amused at her cover's reception, Mrs. Moody said that she had been given a set of phonograph records from Mârouf, had played them in her spare time and jotted down "impressions." Business Manager Wilfred Davis of the Opera selected the final designs...
...Detroit this summer. The Anglo-Argentine Hurlingham team got to Westbury, N. Y. just in time to steal some of Santa Paula's thunder. If they played brilliantly in the Open, their accomplishments might have affected the enthusiasm with which U. S. buyers would bid for the spare-limbed, light-footed, cattle-trained ponies Santa Paula had brought with them to sell. Talk about an International series in case an Argentine team won the Open dwindled soon after the tournament started...
...coupon in the October issue burlesquing Curtis Publishing Co.'s offer to make extra money in spare time by selling subscriptions to Satevepost was signed and sent in by nearly 100 readers. ("He mailed Our Coupon 80 Years Ago-NOW He's at the Head of the Line!-[Bread Line]"). Two coupon-bearers appeared at Ballyhoo's office in person, went away satisfied with subscription blanks...