Word: chasen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water with his toe, bouncing tentatively on the springboard, and obviously preparing to jump in any minute. Early last month, on the anniversary of his father's death, he got a big push-30 Democratic California businessmen gave him a private dinner at Los Angeles' swank Chasen's Restaurant and pledged $50,000 to back him in politics...
Southwest started when Agent Hayward and onetime Airplane Salesman John Howard Connelly dined in a cosy booth in Beverly Hills' swank Chasen's Restaurant, decided to use some Hollywood razzle-dazzle on the Army's mushrooming pilot-training program...
...first thought up the film, S. P. Eagle had no business. He had nothing more than the bare idea for the picture. And he was close to starving. The apocryphal story has it that Mr. Eagle thereupon invited Hollywood's most expensive authors to dinner at Dave Chasen's swank restaurant, ordered the best that Mr. Chasen had, disclosed his idea, picked the writers clean of theirs, and then walked out, leaving the check...
...great moment for Woody Van Dyke, who loves pomp and patriotism even more than pictures. Last fall he hung the stars and stripes outside his studio office, tacked up a sign proclaiming it a Marine recruiting station. After Thursday-night drills with his outfit, Woody would stride into Chasen's restaurant and climb aboard a stool in full regimental regalia. Hollywood said good-by to Woody at a formal dinner for 500 on an M. G. M. sound stage climaxed by a hectic scuffle for the check by the studio, the Screen Directors Guild, Producer Edward Mannix...
Catered by Dave Chasen, the dinner was served with pomp in the 60-foot Rathbone dining hall. Lebensraum was conquered by extending the dining-room floor out into the garden, covering and siding the extension with canvas to keep out the rain...