Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absorbed in the U. S. scene is Artist Sloan that he has never left its boundaries. He and his miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched...
...well as to poverty, chastity and obedience, Little Sisters accept gifts but not incomes or endowments which would require managing property. Once they went through city streets in horse-drawn vans, collecting food as well as money. Today each house has a trim truck, in which sisters may spend a day, eating box lunches en route. Energetic, the Little Sisters used to feel that it was wrong to make use of such labor-savers; only in the past decade have they permitted elevators, electric lights, electric washers and cleaners to be installed in their big New York homes...
...Portsmouth naval base. Second and third were the Duke's trusted friend and former equerry, Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, and Sir Walter Monckton. The Duke & Duchess had planned to drive straight to Major Metcalfe's country place, but delay and blackout made them decide to spend the night in Portsmouth with Sir William. That evening, among war bulletins, British Broadcasting Corp. spent exactly ten of its preciously pronounced words on the arrival...
...cowled hotels are full of happy skiers. In her big chalet the American-born Countess, swanlike, impoverished and tired, presides over her porcelain shepherdesses and her American, English and French girl boarders. In the evening the handsome, resolutely corseted General will come to dazzle the girls at dinner and spend the night secretly with the Countess...
...rest of Saturday morning and the afternoon the Class of '43 will spend in conference with their several advisers, in language examinations, and in tours of Widener Library...