Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...mounted the rostrum "Uncle Arthur" looked strangely thin. No wonder. He had just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United...
...long as General Lee commanded his armies, the battle of Stone Mountain has been waged between Sculptor Borglum, committees, women's clubs, politicians. At the last attempt to obtain a financial accounting from the backers of the memorial, at least $800,000 had been collected from schoolchildren, sentimentalists, and spent. The Federal Government was persuaded to issue special Stone Mountain half dollars. Of these 1,400,000 were sold at $1 each; 700,000 are stored in the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta. In 1925, largely as a result of a political feud between Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta...
...scene of Mirthful Haven is Maine, where Tarkington has spent many a summer (at Kennebunkport) ; the principal characters are Maine natives. Villains of the piece are the "summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes...
...Vagabond's cool and rather quiet summer spent in the fastness of a Greenland valley has come to an abrupt close. Cambridge with its heat, dust and Tercentenary-isms, he must admit, is rather an abrupt change from the invigorating freshness of the Arctic summer. But it seems that the season for vagabonding has begun once again, so the pleasures of a past summer will have to join the shows of yesteryear and the present situation dispatched as efficiently as possible...
...Author. Walter D. Edmonds, 27, a native of Boonville, N. Y., has spent nearly every summer there on his family's farm and lately went back there to live Dark, long-faced, quiet, he is a good listener, his favorite occupation being to hear stories from farmers, canalmen, lumbermen. He has also written Rome Haul...