Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to the stage and a job with a repertory company. After another interlude at teaching (during which he managed to save ?10), Fry got a job as secretary to a popular songwriter, and wrote some songs himself which, however, failed to become popular. After a turn as a cabaret entertainer, he moved into an abandoned country rectory, together with a writer friend, 100 books and a large barrel of beef, to write a verse play. They finished the barrel, but not the play...
Fading Possibility. So it went. The possibility of holding down next year's estimated $7 billion deficit to even that whopping figure faded further when the House Ways & Means Committee continued to slash excise taxes. Newest items marked for tax relief were telephone bills, Pullman-berth tickets and cabaret chits. Added to cuts made the week before, the new slashes would reduce the Treasury's intake by about $1 billion...
Last week, with a few new grey flecks in his crewcut hair, Baby was in Rio for a relaxing round of cabaret crawls and pre-carnival binges. Lounging in his suite at the Copacabana Palace, he boasted that business was better than ever now that the experts were gone. Actually, by slicing off a couple of his unprofitable enterprises, the U.S. advisers had done him a real service. His assets, he figured, were now higher than they had ever been. Said Baby: "1949 was a good year for me. Gross sales won't be far from $25 million when...