Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to his blindness, it would seem that what hampers him is not being unable to see the piano; after all, most good pianists can play blindfolded with very little practice. And since Templeton has spent his entire life in darkness, he has developed a very sensitive touch that enables him to overcome this mechanical handicap. But what undoubtedly must have bothered him is the lack of visual perception of life around him. All musicians, whether they play swing or classical music, draw their inspiration from things that happen to them in life, that they can see and comprehend...
...Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent seven months in a Waukegan, Ill. jail for running a brewery, looked forward to a much longer sentence...
...called "Pope of Peace" by his admirers. Published last week was a quick job of biography of the new Pope, Pius XII, Pope of Peace, † which made out no case for giving him, any more than Pius XI, such a special designation. Last week the Holy Father spent his first Holy Week in office, a week made notable by the fact that his neighbor Benito Mussolini chose Good Friday to invade Albania. On Easter Sunday Pius XII made a radio address to the world: "There can be no peace so long as treaties which have been solemnly sanctioned have...
During his "exile" in the U. S. (he returned to Paris two months ago), Elliot Paul wrote a novel, Concert Pitch, and spent much time studying U. S. labor. The result is The Stars and Stripes Forever. A strike novel laid in a one-man manufacturing town in Connecticut, it contains no Communist character, goes light on leftist propaganda. Conceit rather than the C.I.O. accounts for the fact that the villain, Tycoon Loring, finally gets the whole town down on him, including the high school football team. With its neat plot and smooth dialogue, The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...exceptionally large group of Varsity and Freshman talent spent the vacation pounding the cinders. As a result the squad is in excellent shape for this time of year, except for Ros Brayton, miler, who got soaked in the eye with a shuttlecock while playing badminton; Bob Partlow, Jump artist, who still has a bad foot; and Coach Mikkola, who has a whing-ding of a cold...