Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...
Dragged to Danville to testify, Banker Aldrich spent seven minutes on the stand denying that he knew either Maude Ault or Robert Alt, that he had ever seen Max Orendorff. At the end of the first day of trial, it appeared that no mortal man had ever seen Max Orendorff. Robert Alt and his mother, weeping on his arm, changed their plea to guilty and were sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $3,000 each...
...every five of Kashmir's revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound in 1,600 of British revenue to King George VI). And the taxpayer gets almost nothing for his money. In one state which charges taxes of $5.50 per head, 10? per head is spent on education, 8? on public health. Much of the rest goes to keep the maharaja well supplied with pearls, virgins, elephants and other luxuries. If taxation fails, there are different ways of raising money-one prince is said to have sold his 300 stepmothers for 30 rupees apiece...
...blimp, collect jigsaw puzzles, jiggle pocketfuls of diamonds, buy "anything that snapped," maintained residences at one time or another in all four States. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court settled the matter by deciding that $5,000,000 should go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because Colonel Green "spent more time there than at any other place." One of the two Supreme Court dissenters: Felix Frankfurter, newest member of the Court who until his appointment last January was a Massachusetts resident...
Back to Europe tourist class on the Queen Mary, after a few months spent practically incognito in the U. S., sailed the Dame and Seigneur of Sark (Mrs. & Mr. Robert Woodward Hathaway*). Their realm: a tiny Channel island of 600 people, smallest self-governing state of the British Empire, which was chartered in 1565 by Queen Elizabeth and has never had automobiles, politics, divorces, income taxes or crime waves. Said the Dame of Sark: "The last crime trouble we had was several years ago, when a 14-year-old girl ran off with some article from a clothesline. We told...