Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Michael Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Miller, John Balderston, Edwin Justus Mayer all had at least a little finger in the scenario. But next to Sidney Howard's work, the bulk of the scripting, as David Selznick admits, was done by David Selznick. He is still very touchy because a shooting script was not ready even by the time that the final scenes were filmed. When the filming was practically complete the last day's call sheet read: Script...
That night an ambulance went clanging through the streets of Manhattan, carrying Heywood Broun's great bulk to the hospital. His grippe had turned into pneumonia, and he was gravely ill. Never in good health, his heart weakened by years of hard work and good living, Broun was close to death. As he fought his fever in a dim room high above the Hudson River, in the Presbyterian Hospital's Harkness Pavilion, he could reflect that he had at least put all his varied affairs in order...
...millennium in which a menagerie breaks loose, animals, vegetables and Indians run wild, and there are "no pale white faces, thanks be to Christ!" For the rest, its often funny short pieces are as mild compared to the two novels as they are wild, and fresh, relative to the bulk-and much of the best-of U. S. writing...
Historical novels still supply a big share, and bigger bulk, of any season's second-raters. Among the most recent batch of ten, the following are typical...
...limit and I thought I should really have to chuck it. It wasn't so much the discomfort as the feeling one was a prisoner, but now we are getting 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off which has very much changed the situation. The bulk of the girls are youngsters; of course I get fearfully tired of spending hours with the very young but I daresay they feel just the same about the aged. [N.B.-The writer is over 40.] I enjoyed my first leave tremendously and went into the country to see Mother. Lots...