Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Hollywood expects a foreign correspondent to be--which is more like a side-show barker than anything else. And although to some people his jowls and teeth make him look like a Walt Disney rabbit, especially when he smiles, he can probably be considered handsome in the bargain. Then there is Joan Bennett, who is horribly cast as a well-bred English girl, and who meets the Rabbit Man n --how did you guess it--a blackout. In addition there are numerous other stock characters, all of them nobly and courageously going about their jobs amid the bursting...
...This farcical victory is won by Newsman Pidgeon over Judge Russell after she has awarded his employer's (Edward Arnold) wife so much alimony that he has to earn $18,000 more a month to pay it and has to send Pidgeon to frame the judge, into the bargain. Characteristically, the judge won't admit that she loves the reporter except under cross-examination in court...
...full credit to Harvard students who took them. If this can be done in regard to one department at one particular college, there's no reason for the same thing not to be done on a much wider scale. And Havard's prestige wouldn't suffer in the bargain...
...voice questioned whether Ethiopia had really been freed. Said Lord Davies carefully: "The agreement . . . strikes some as a hard bargain. ... So long as Abyssinia is bound down by some of the clauses, it cannot be described as free and independent...
...butt for dreary jests, a homely beast to look upon, the U.S. mule-4,500,000 strong-is again coming into his own. Farmers, threatened with a tractor shortage, are buying mules. The U.S. Army is getting set to bargain for more than 15,000. Dealers in such mule marts as Memphis and East St. Louis, Ill. think a mule boom is in the making...