Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...queer quirk is that after Bolivia and Paraguay did cease firing last week, they turned for mediation not to the Council of the League-which had spent $26,000 on words-but to the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation at Washington...
...Spent is the age when rearing spires could dominate a city. Coming up the New York harbor you see many a Wall Street office building, but the towers of Trinity and St. Paul's are visible only after you turn the corner into lower Broadway. If any Gothic soars into the morning, it commemorates not God but the Woolworth five-and-ten cent stores...
...regrets that troubled the soul of Oscar, however, never, entered into the discussions of a group of men who gathered in a downtown bank in New York and spent the day deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock...
History and legend are filled with plagues, most horrific of which was the Black Death which scourged Europe in the middle of the Fifteenth Century. When Boccaccio's characters fled Florence in 1438 and spent their exile telling the stories of the Decameron, they thus escaped a swift, nauseous blight which, so the tales run, made dark convulsions of men's faces, twisted tortures of their bodies...
...Lexington, Ohio, Robert Wilson trained his pig to hunt rabbits. The two of them spent many a happy day in the hills-the pig running ahead, squealing when he was on the trail and killing the rabbit when he caught it, Robert Wilson shambling through the underbrush after him, to collect the corpses and make them into pie. Last week the game warden, L. A. Paxton, found out about Robert Wilson and his pig; it is against the law to hunt with an animal which kills game for the hunter. Hence, it appeared probable, Robert Wilson would lose his hunting...