Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin to "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday") to give everybody cash certificates to be spent within a year. The group also had rifle-shooting practice to develop members' "individual qualities and reliance...
Bronzed, beauteous Alice Marble, No. 1 U. S. woman tennis ace, spent five days having her face "peeled" of its sunburn in order to sing professionally at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Her repertoire includes: I See Your Face Before Me, Two Sleepy People, This Can't Be Love...
Back to the U. S. after 20 years spent in Europe went Catherine Wolff of Philadelphia, now Baroness Eugene Rothschild, whose brother-in-law, Baron Louis Rothschild, has been in "protective custody" in Vienna since last May, and she refused to talk about Nazibusiness...
...George) as president, a family faction had him sidetracked to the chairmanship on the grounds that he was getting old. Then one faction urged modernizing the store; another wanted the status quo. In 1935 a 45-year-old, high-pressure executive named Victor Hugo Hamf was finally hired. He spent $10,000 on a "Hostess Shop," hired younger salespeople, revised the bookkeeping. But streamlining Charles & Co. was like streamlining a horse and buggy; it did not take...
...explained, seen enough of America to make up his mind about it. However, since he has spent a great deal of time in France, this country has not seemed very strange...