Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making David Copperfield, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went to vast expense and trouble. Before assembling his cast, Producer David Selznick journeyed to England with Director George Cukor and Scenarist Howard Estabrook. They brought back Author Hugh Walpole, to add his famed name to Scenarist Estabrook's act briefly as the Vicar of Blunderstone in the film. Five hundred boys were tested for the part of David before little Freddie Bartholomew of Wiltshire, England was picked. The picture cost approximately $1,000,000 and took a year to make. The result of all this money and mind, time and talent...
...proposed that his company, Arkansas Power & Light, invest about $600 per home in transmission lines and equipment, while each farmer was to put $200 into lamps, irons, washing machines, water pumps. How were the farmers to raise the money? Why, said Mr. Couch, let each farmer's wife add 20 good hens to her flock. The onetime RFC director had been studying hens. Eggs from five good hens, said he, would pay for the lighting. Two hens could lay enough to cover the cost of running the iron; another two could pay for the washing; three for the water...
...poor tutor." These are often individual judgements to be sure, and therefore not as reliable as one might wish. Still, if the professors and other tutors in a Department agree that Jones is an excellent tutor, and if the House master and his staff, watching Jones at close range, add their corroborating opinions, the chances are that Jones really is a good tutor. And if, when the question of his promotion arises, the excellence of his tutoring is not reckoned a major point in his favor, Harvard may suffer for the omission Do less than Jones himself...
Because Jazzman Davis did not consider the words quite "respectful" enough for the White House, he asked Mr. Porter to add some more fitting rhymes-perhaps something of a salute to President Roosevelt. The Yaleman (Class of 1913) who wrote "Bulldog. Bulldog" replied that he was "too busy." Therefore one Sid Kuller was commissioned to do the job. Last week the Meyer Davis orchestramen chanted the following conclusion...
...dominions overseas. ... If my voice reaches any of the peoples of India, let it bring them the assurance of my constant care for them and of my desire that they today ever and more fully realize their own place in this unity of the one family. . . . May I add, very simply and sincerely, that if I may be regarded as in some true sense the head of this great and widespread family, sharing its life and sustained by its affection, this will be a full reward for the long and sometimes anxious labors of my reign of well-nigh five...