Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Town Council of the Royal Borough of Forfar assembled before a table studded with ale bottles to pass suitable resolutions, drink a health to the "first royal birth in Scotland for more than three centuries."* They decided that plebeian ale did not befit the occasion, spent the town's money for four bottles of Scotch whiskey which were instantly consumed...
...Elizabeth Duchess of York, whose happiest years were spent there, Glamis Castle is a very good place to have a baby. To a superstitious Briton?and there are millions of them?Glamis Castle is a very bad place. Glamis (pronounced Glahms) was old before Macbeth did murder sleep and Duncan. The central keep and two detached towers on the lawn date from at least the 10th Century. Glamis boasts all the romantic appurtenances of a novel by Horace Walpole. It has a secret staircase, a "Priest's hole" where Papists were hidden during the Commonwealth, the room where Macbeth murdered...
...come to learn his method of attacking the unconscious by the free association method. He has never taken money from his pupils. What he earns from his books, he turns over to the International Psychoanalytic Publishing Co., a non-profit organization for printing psychoanalytic books. His spare time is spent on a revision of his work in dreams. Anna, his daughter, is his best student, his most loyal supporter. She acts as his interpreter to the world. During his lifetime he has shunned publicity, has had few interviews with the press. He abhors sensationalism, has been so engrossed in study...
...strode a tall, hatless, tousled young man with a traveling bag in one hand which he would let no porter carry. To Broadway he sped, for he was Howard Hughes Jr. cinema producer, and in the bag were the reels of his picture Hell's Angels on which he spent nearly three years and over $4,000,000 (TIME, June 9). He had personally conveyed the film to Manhattan for its Eastern premi?...
...London, a Scotsman whose company, Baird Television Corp., has been selling sets to Englishmen for four months, has established branches in many foreign countries (France, Germany, U. S.). Because owners have complained of the small size of televized images, Inventor Baird has, like Dr. Alexanderson of General Electric, spent the past year in enlarging his screen. Last fortnight, he gave a demonstration in the London Coliseum of his life-size images. English television programs are broadcast every...