Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...block trying to get ducats for his play. Show biz is about as comprehensible to him as a Variety headline, and creates a surrealist zone in which Jack can never find his way, especially after the daily ration of martinis. To make matters worse, his wife and four children bulk awfully large just about the time Jack has begun trailing after lovely Star Irene Lovelle like a morose coon hound...
...confession sheets not only sell to women, they also buy the great bulk of their plots from women, whose unsolicited revelations pour over publishers' transoms with every mail. Some publishers, such as Macfadden Publications, which owns True Experience, True Love Stories and True Romance as well as bestselling True Story, insist that all the stories in their magazines are based on "real-life" contributions from readers...
...Harold W. Dodds, president of the university, said the late David Mahany, a member of the class of 1907, left the bulk of his estate in trust to his widow, Mrs. Georgiana S. Mahany, with the provision that it go to the university on her death...
Though the $1.500,000 worth of Paris designs brought back each year by U.S. buyers are a tiny item in the U.S.'s annual $4 billion dress sales, they stir the whole massive bulk of the industry to new life. Even as U.S. women flip through the fashion magazines, other manufacturers will be studying the photographs, devising ways of changing materials, reducing fullnesses, simplifying cuts so that they can present a copy of a design they never paid for. In three months the $300 custom-made copies will have been copied in their turn to sell...
...vegetarianism to antivivisection. But he had one obsession that puzzled even his closest friends. "They think it a huge joke," he once complained. "It's the most serious proposal of my life." His will proved that he meant what he said: aside from some personal bequests, the bulk of his estate was to go into a charitable trust to finance the design of a new phonetic alphabet for the English-speaking people. But just in case the courts might throw out such a trust, Shaw named three alternate beneficiaries who would divide his money between them: the British Museum...