Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a flurry of protestations and denials in Hollywood, the Eastern home offices of the five big studios (MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox, RKO Radio) put out a confirmation and a pious explanation. Their decision to let Oscar fend for himself, they said, was not "commercialistic," but "in the interests of less commercialization . . . The companies should not be in the position where they can be accused of subsidizing an artistic and cultural forum. In fact, they so have been accused often in the past...
...Florida or Europe or simply to the fights. New York didn't seem to mind. Jimmy was the cock o' the walk, a witty, debonair, fashion-plate Irishman who could charm a bird down out of a tree. "Mr. New York," they called him, and the Big Town "wore [him] in its lapel" like a carnation (as one wit cracked), and threw him away when the Big Party of the '20s was over...
After a stint at business school and two years of law school, gregarious, piano-playing Jimmy Walker set out to write songs for a living. He had only one big hit, Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, but he made a million friends in Manhattan. In 1912, Jimmy married his sweetheart, Janet ("Allie") Allen, to a medley of "Here Comes the Bride" and Witt You Love Me in December? All his life a 10 o'clock scholar, Jimmy was more than two hours late for the wedding. Two years later, after having served...
Tempest in a Pot. As mayor, Walker soon reduced his onerous new job to an easygoing system. "Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those...
...success of Senate 5 would be a big defeat for Massachusetts people in the struggle to gain and preserve institutions for good city government...