Word: brought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That They Shall Have Music ended at all is no mean tribute to Producer Goldwyn's pertinacity. Having convinced Heifetz with difficulty that it was his "duty" to make a movie, Goldwyn went to work on an ambitious story about a Jewish musician exiled from Germany, was brought up short when Heifetz refused to do any acting off a concert platform. Result was that Goldwyn had no story ready when Heifetz reported in Hollywood between concert tours last summer. In desperation, when Heifetz refused to wait for his $70,000, Goldwyn had him work it out in four strenuous...
Belair had been famed as a breeding farm for more than 150 years?since the day in 1747 when its first owner, Governor Samuel Ogle of Maryland, brought with him from England a stallion named Spark and a broodmare named Queen Mab, two of the earliest thoroughbreds ever imported to the U. S.? But in the 29 years that zealous William Woodward has been master of Belair, its name has become far more famed than it ever was under generations of Ogles...
...searchlights stabbed. They stood like steady swords of light-or like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage beneath the acoustic shell newly labeled NEW MEN . . . NEW NATIONS . . . A NEW WORLD...
...Week in one all-night session, fortified by draughts of red wine. He has 40 regular correspondents, makes frequent , trips to European storm centres, has printed some accurate inside stories of the doings of the Cliveden Set. Many times sued for libel, Editor Cockburn has yet to be brought to court...
Grey's spunkiness delighted rich Jewish Banker Ellice Victor (later Sir Victor) Sassoon, inveterate flying bug, who agreed to back him in a new aviation magazine. In June 1911, Editor Grey brought out the first issue of The Aeroplane. Through several changes of management, many a near-fatal slump, he held the editorial chair. Lately, under the aegis of Temple Press, the magazine boomed...