Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happily. After the hearing he leaves the two who are no longer husband and wife alone in his chambers. Coming in, after a decent interval, he is so hopeful of a reconciliation that he is bold to ask Ina Claire whether "anything had happened," and Miss Claire, who has spent her respite quarreling with Henry Daniel about opening a window, answers laconically, "Nothing unusual." You might lift her phrase from its context and apply it as criticism to the picture as a whole but only, in fairness, if you excluded the suavity of the tone with which it is uttered...
...floodlight of attention which the press of three continents turned loose on her honeymoon abroad, still in progress. There was one crucial night at Cap D'Antibes when she and Gilbert argued about what to do after dinner-he for staying in, she for going outa night spent so distinctly to her own taste that at 5:30 a. m. Gilbert, still sitting up and still alone, got into his car and drove off at a furious pace into the Riviera dawn. Mrs. Gilbert came home, became excited, threw some things in a suitcase, went away somewhere. Reunited...
...When I spent a fortnight at the seaside this year," said Commissioner Lansbury in his high, piping voice, "I saw numbers of children running about almost naked, enjoying the sun's rays, and I was very much struck with the improvement in their condition within a few days...
...spent last Monday going around the London Parks looking for suitable places where children may get all the sun they want. ... I hope to arrange for sun bathing by the time next summer comes round...
Called by romantic French reporters Le Grand Inquisiteur, and Le Sherlock Holmes Parisien, M. Bayle played in real life that familiar character of all good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...