Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although our career then was full of hard traveling," she went out, as the reporter nodded his sympathy and thought uncomplimentary things about anyone who would make Merilyn work so hard, and life spent at inferior hotels, my mother insisted upon strict obedience to the routine she had laid out for me. The question of diet was a big one. I was warned under no circumstances should an actress permit herself to get fat. This also applies to college men. I warn them against ice cream potatoes, cake, rice, or anything with much sugar if they want to keep their...
...alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about a bit, and die. The former survive many generations of men. They are born, they mate, and they die like the others. As for their decades of leisure, most of it is spent in crawling unhurriedly about the ooze...
Last week began the long-winded process of arranging a fight for the contemporary strongboy James J. ("Gene") Tunney. The champion, returning from a camp in Maine, gave an interview on literature to a reporter in the train and stated that he had spent his last evening in camp reading Richard III. In Manhattan, one Humbert J. Fugazy approached him with an offer to fight "the outstanding heavyweight contender" (Jack Delaney or possibly Jack Sharkey) at the Polo Grounds, Tunney to receive 37½% of an estimated $1,500,000 gate...
...spent the rest of the morning haggling for three Meharis, or riding common or garden baggage camels. Then, with one Eddas Ben Eddas, another guide whom I had picked, we set out to visit a number of picturesque oases in the desert...
...third of each entering class have been forced to go over the ground thoroughly covered in school, and to reach the end of English A knowing no more about the mastery and use of words than at the beginning. Hours have been wasted which might properly have been spent in starting their collegiate education rather than in repeating school work...