Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eugene has received a temporary appointment to fill Rulon's position during his leave of absence. Rulon will spend a year visiting educational institutions and preparing a survey with recommendations telling what new kinds of tests are needed...
...working day and told what improvements she feels her union has brought. Waitresses have three periods of work: the breakfast time from 7:45 to 10:15 o'clock; lunch period from 13 to 2:15 o'clock; and dinner from 5 to 7:45 o'clock. They spend their time off in the mornings and afternoons playing bridge and sewing in the recreation rooms or resting in their own homes...
...head, solemn and almost macabre in appearance, Colonel Beck is probably the most unpopular of big Polish politicians. But political unpopularity matters little in Poland. One Pole out of five is illiterate. Communications are comparatively undeveloped, public opinion slow to form. The peasantry in many parts of the country spend most of their time and interest on trying to get enough to eat to keep alive...
...Foreign Office, dines about once a week at the swanky Europejski Café, is a steady drinker. The lovely Mme Beck entertains diplomats once monthly - on the 17th. Both Colonel and Mme Beck were married once before, both were divorced. Because they are susceptible to bronchitis, they usually spend several weeks annually on the sunny French Riviera. Last week the Becks and the Cianos were weekending on a gay hunting party in Bialowieza, Europe's largest forest. The Colonel is known to have an aversion to hunting...
Cafe-Society (Paramount). Within the last decade, a variety of influences, including Repeal, Depression, the servant problem and congenital hysteria, have caused one faction in Manhattan's insecure aristocracy of wealth to spend their evenings in public restaurants rather than their homes. As a group, this faction got itself labeled Cafe Society. Top chroniclers of Manhattan society are "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Maury Paul), $50,000-a-year oldtime smart-setter for the New York Journal and American, and Lucius Beebe who writes a weekly column for the New York Herald Tribune...