Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smart race but just a dangerous and famous one. Sir Thomas Royden of the Cunard line was there. He had ordered the liner Scythia into dock at Liverpool so that people who wanted to see the race could sleep on board. The King of Afghanistan had spent the night as his guest and was now sitting with Queen Thuraya in the Earl of Derby's box. It was a big week for him and he didn't want to miss anything. Howard Bruce of Maryland, owner of Billy Barton, sat in Sir Thomas Royden...
...Italy he is conductor of the Scala Opera in Milan-but he likes a concert orchestra better. He is interested in politics, ran once for the Italian Parliament on a Fascist ticket. His hobbies are painting and riding in a fast automobile; his life spent simply with Signora Toscanini, his two daughters-Wanda and Wally (the w's pronounced as v), his son Walter, a book collector in Milan...
...patrons, prefer to buy the works of "old masters." These whining, muttering artists are to some extent justified. But what must have been their surprise, their delight mixed with dismay, to learn, last week, that an anonymous art patron, i. e., a man with money, had spent $41,000 for 32 of the works of John Sloan, famed extant U. S. painter, president of the ultra-radical Society of Independent Artists...
Voluntary prisoners in the air, Eddie Stinson and George Haldeman spent more than two days and two nights in the air above Jacksonville beach, Fla., beating the previous record by more than an hour. They jockeyed their single-motored Stinson-Detroiter monoplane to take every advantage of breeze and altitude, until they had but five gallons of gasoline left of the 550 with which they took...
...also encouraging men to do more individual work, although this entails increased faculty Ritual class work is not required for honor men, with the expectation that more effort will be spent in individual study...