Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Sutherland, 65, born in Buckinghamshire, England, and put on the high bench by President Harding. He spent his boyhood and young-lawyer's life in Utah, until sent to Congress. He is sometimes confused with a Scotch-Canadian namesake who, a good Baptist minister and college president, campaigns for the Anti-Saloon League in Nebraska. But not often, for he takes care to give "c/o Supreme Court of the U. S." as his address, in Who's Who, and wears a short beard of silver-tipped distinction. He is usually to be found on the vested-rights...
...University eight spent yesterday afternoon experimenting with a new Lutz shell on the Charles, the various eights shifting about and each taking an initial row in the new craft. After practice the general consensus of opinion was that it was not quite up to the standard of the shell used in the race at New London last June, a shell constructed by Pocock...
...willing workers listened politely to Mr. Francisco. They heard later that he spent a whole evening trying to telephone across the continent to Governor Smith and persuade him to withdraw at once. They were not offended when, departing in a huff, Mr. Francisco addressed them as a "meeting of the Bowery of a few small western towns...
...there was born to the Rev. Lyman Beecher, a small contradiction, who was christened, after due consideration, Henry Ward. He was a contradiction because, although the son of a pious, even a studious clergyman, he spent his very early youth in moody or riotous behavior; his school work was invariably bad, his appearance and disposition uncouth, his only talents those of a buffoon. Later, still a contradiction, he spent his days in disseminating simultaneously the word of God and a most horrible scandal...
...just returned from her vacation spent on a brigantine out of Marseilles, and is rumored to be writing a series of articles for the Advocate on her past as a parrot lady-sailor...