Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock clerk at $18 weekly in William Fileno & Sons' department store bargain basement, John spent the day changing price tags on women's dresses...
...This summer I spent in the Common on a variety of benches. Not long ago I had four walls and a bed and some books, but I was finally driven out along with the rest...
...forbidden it. We must be alert to what is changing around us, even though we cannot understand. They have warned us that the world has come to a sharp turn, and they say even students must be ready for the careening. It's a hard blow, because we have spent so many delightful years in our towers. It's somewhat of a joke that we, of all people, must think about security. We really are afraid. We tell each other over our sherry and vegetable soup that courage at such a time is blindness and fear is awareness...
...readers are used to Englishmen's relentless output of travel books about the U. S. But for an American to write a travel book about England is still a novelty. Wife of a Ph.D. (brother of Publisher Richard Simon) who spent a year in England on an exchange professorship, 28-year-old Margaret Halsey has added enough wisecracks to make her novelty also a likely bestseller. Divested of wisecracks, Author Halsey's English impressions are surprisingly charitable - kinder than most English impressions of the U. S., kinder than Peggy Bacon's illustrations, and much kinder than...
...course of my life," Celine once confessed, "I spent so many years as a bard, a hero, an official, and a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum." Readers of Journey to the End of the Night, which at 40 turned Celine (real name: Louis Des-touches) from an obscure municipal doctor to the most sensational of contemporary writers, may have thought that savage autobiographical novel was enough to fill a whole insane asylum by itself. But the Journey had left untold the story of Celine...