Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urrows, while at Harvard, served as secretary and production manager of the Club, and produced here "Dog Beneath the Skin" and "Straight Scotch." Since graduation he has been engaged in publicity writing for various firms, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and he has spent a good deal of time with the "Barnstormers," a New Hampshire stock company...
Sober, methodical and coolheaded, Violist Primrose is no sissy. His evenings are spent, not at musical tea parties, but at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Once a good boxer himself, still an avid connoisseur of right hooks and straight lefts, he no longer dares to get into the ring for fear of hurting his hands. Today, Primrose is generally considered the world's finest viola player. No longer does he have to play one-night stands, traipsing through snowdrifts to theatres and hotels in out-of-the-way Canadian and Midwestern towns. He reaches a bigger audience...
Certain it is that no definite stock-taking can be made of protean Pablo Picasso before he is safely dead. Until then he will spend his life as he has spent it to date: in sporadically escaping from himself by declaring war on his latest period and once more attempting to foretell the shape of things to come. Like the Proteus of classic fable, he has the further gift of eluding those who clutch at him, changing his shape and slipping out of their grasp. At 58, he is still the revolutionary...
...whom are drawn from the 10,000,000 sandlot baseballers and softballers in the U. S.), many a onetime star has turned promoter of indoor baseball. President of the league (at $7,500 a year) is 51-year-old Tris Speaker, Cleveland's baseball Immortal who has spent the past nine years as a radio sportcaster, Hollywood actor, minor-league club owner, wholesale liquor dealer and steel salesman. Managing the Cleveland club is another onetime Indian, baldpate Bill Wambsganss, only baseballer ever to make an unassisted triple play in a World Series (against the Dodgers...
...horse, Socialist-minded Chicago publisher printed a small edition of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes. Its author was a fact-worshipping reporter of Philadelphia and Manhattan who had spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...