Word: spartan
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...Monastic Spartan. George & Mrs. Bernard Shaw were late for the luncheon party of 19 which Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald gave to welcome Drs. Brüning & Curtius to "Chequers," the British summer White House. Mrs. Shaw appeared mortified, George, breezy and brazen as usual. By arriving late in a car which he drove himself, the red-whiskered Irishman kept waiting not only the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of two Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary...
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...extension of the University building program to the Law School would alleviate this Spartan regime of bad food and dismal lodgings. The present ordeal seems hardly to inculcate an overpowering enthusiasm for the law. It might even be suggested that a portion of the thirty per cent mortality of every first year class is due more to discouragement and loneliness, caused by the physical obstacles of the present environment rather than to any mental hurdle set by the faculty...
...Reichstag last week Deputy Karl Freybe, pork-packer, member of the little Economic Party, gave Spartan advice to East Prussian pig raisers who have been bitterly complaining of low prices, overproduction and cut-throat Polish pig competition in the German market...
...Spartan Brothers. Kenneth Hunter's tooth ached. John Hunter clung hard to the control stick to keep from falling asleep Their second-hand Stinson Detroiter, City of Chicago, its left wing tank leaking badly, listed far to the right. The Wright J-6 motor coughed and sputtered after 18 days of continuous flight. Brothers Walter and Albert Hunter came up in their Plane Big Ben for the 154th time with gas and oil, with a meal prepared by Sister Irene John and Kenneth pushed on on, circling Chicago's Sky Harbor airport-finally waggled their wings in triumphant...