Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grown, to 2,300,000, is a big Macfadden moneymaker. When it learned that Mr. Fawcett had managed a publicity tie-up with Paramount on Carole Lombard's picture True Confession, Mr. Macfadden's True Story looked briskly to its circulation laurels. True Confessions, with $15,000 spent in exploitation, ordered several hundred thousand more February copies than it had been selling, put them on sale December 24, six days early. But by last week Mr. Fawcett and his True Confessions were a pretty disillusioned pair, and did not hesitate to show it in a startling newspaper advertisement...
Washington Allston, an early U. S. cosmopolitan who spent four years in Rome, became acquainted with Wordsworth and Coleridge, painted powerful romantic landscapes, gradually atrophied in Boston...
...until 1907, 14 years after General Doubleday's death, that a research committee definitely established Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball. Civic-proud Cooperstownians, whose pastoral background had already been immortalized as the home town and nameplace† of James Fenimore Cooper, bought the original baseball field, spent $25,000 to transform it into a modern ball park and public playground, named it Doubleday field. Three years ago, in anticipation of the 100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build...
...concertos, songs and instrumental solo pieces. Sensitive and nervous by temperament (a mental breakdown hastened his death at 46), MacDowell loved the country, drew inspiration and titles for his music from nature. Eventually he bought himself a strip of wooded land near Peterboro in southern New Hampshire, where he spent his last years. Before he died he expressed a wish that this country refuge might be made available to other composers, paint-ters, writers who were anxious to work in country quiet. But the realization of his wish required more money than Idealist MacDowell had saved...
...Elaine over the Columbia network. Other commemorative broadcasts were heard over Columbia, NBC, Don Lee, and Canadian broadcasting systems, as well as 56 independent stations. Additional MacDowell broadcasts were heard from one station each in Ireland, Sweden, England, Australia, Poland. Norway, and from three stations in Germany, where MacDowell spent his most fruitful student years...