Word: sparingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more tradition dresser can go down to the sea in classic clamdiggers, in a spare, Italian cut, augmented by side vents for ease around the knees. With them he can wear a pull-over beach shirt styled with matching vents and a new Italian collar fastened with rope. To complete the Continental look are broad-brimmed straw hats with tapered crown and patterned band...
...house the night of the primary vote in Minnesota. You say it was to be "a black tie dinner." It wasn't. There wasn't a black tie there, and the "red tartan dinner jacket" that Stevenson wore is not a dinner jacket but a dilapidated spare coat. You say "with only his really good friends in politics invited." There were two people for supper at his house that night: Stevenson and a friend from out of town, George Ball. Stevenson's law partner Bill Wirtz and his wife arrived about 10 o'clock; later...
...days early in the week he barnstormed the east coast of Florida from Jacksonville to Coral Gables. Everywhere he went he repeated the tried-and-true Kefauver vote-getting tactics which, said one Floridian, reminded him of "a quail hunter shooting singles." In Jacksonville, with a few minutes to spare, he carried on a vigorous sidewalk campaign in the neighborhood of his hotel, then went into a barbershop to announce, "I'm Estes Kefauver. I'm running for President. I want your vote." Replied the barber: "I know who you are. You're the man everybody...
...beginning of vacation, Lamont was unnecessarily inconsiderate to those who didn't or couldn't escape. For the intrepid student who was bogged down in overdue papers during the holiday, or the threadbare midwesterner who could not get home, Lamont was a library without books. The inarticulate and the spare of physique, not to mention those who enjoy food, were decidedly the losers after the lunch-hour battle at Desk One's bargain basement on Friday...
Jason, despite this psychiatric documentation, is a likable and lively character, the book a pleasant and intimate chronicle of prewar and through-war living. Balchin, one of the most skilled of Britain's popular storytellers, has a fine, spare ear for the speech and the manners of that kind of Englishman who can accuse one another of cowardice, dishonesty or moral turpitude without raising their voices, missing a mouthful of lunch, or disturbing the even tenor of their friendship...