Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bates knows Spain; this knowledge has served as substance for his two best sellers, "Lean Men" and "The Olive Field." After serving in the World War as a volunteer, he went to Barcelona where he has spent many of the intervening years. His background includes service in the revolution of 1931 which established the republic that he is now defending...
...Garfield, recruited from the lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent the summer in barn repertory preparing for her Broadway stage debut, was inappropriately cast as "a tramp from Newark," her fresh-faced prettiness belying every tough trait she tried to show...
...have, or think they have, a bosom problem. . . . Stop thinking of your bosom as an isolated problem. Instead think of it in relation to your general health and well being. . . . An adept masseuse may treat your bosom without causing injury but you might better have spent your time and money on a merry-go-round. . . . Freak diets which cause rapid reduction ravage the bosom. . . . If your breasts are out of fashion today, they may be in fashion tomorrow...
...which last week's was the first, the U. S.. Office of Education will dramatize for U. S. citizens Latin-American history, heroes, culture and wealth. Said U. S. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker: "This will probably be the first time in history that one government has spent time and money on a sustained effort to help its own citizens appreciate the ideals of people across the border...
...Metropolitan feature writers got busy when the Midtown Galleries displayed eleven paintings by the proprietor of a beauty parlor on Union Square. Saturnine, mop-headed Paul Mommer, 38, spent his younger days in Luxembourg and in a British prison camp during the War. Afterward he knocked around as a seaman, became a hospital orderly in Manhattan, then a barber. His moody paintings of recollected landscapes, done in the back room of his shop at night, began to impress art critics three years ago, have grown more impressive. Sympathetic customers at the Mommer beauty parlor include Mrs. Norman Thomas...