Word: spend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known, will be a test of our common sense," wrote Novelist J. B. Priestly. "We are fighting bewildered, angry, hysterical men, who at any moment may bark out orders to rain death and destruction on this country. . . . Therefore, let the children stay [in the country]. . . . It is better to spend one Christmas Eve longing for them than to spend a thousand evenings of dreadful remorse...
...Their love," says a friend, "is the most beautiful thing I have ever known." Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier spend most of their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...
...spite of his pose of indolence, he figured that he had turned out close to 21,000,000 words. He had also managed to paint pictures, run for Congress, organize a labor union, make innumerable speeches, run a little weekly newspaper of his own, remember the Holy Sacrament, spend hours on end eating & drinking with his friends in such Manhattan night spots as the Stork Club...
...worried because Shell expected to have to spend a million dollars to erect permanent derricks on its 900 East Texas wells as soon as the oil stopped flowing freely and pumping became necessary, The derricks had to be there for pulling and cleaning the wells' rods and tubing once or twice a year. He asked for sketches and bids on a portable unit to do the job, and Franks Co. engineers went to work...
...life in his work, but a plastic equivalent for it which has a life of its won." Now this statement, though not applicable to all of Cezanne's work, is a simple, yet comprehensive summary of a very important aspect of the artist's style. And if we spend a few moments studying the three Cezanne paintings which are now being shown in Fogg Museum, we can begin to see the truth embodied in Mr. Phillips statement. Cezanne manages to create something besides the object which he is representing; and that "something" which he creates is the basis...