Word: chit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words from Hedda, set down with the same swooping abandon with which she selects the hats that have become her trademark, or one of Lolly Parsons' little shark-toothed prose smiles, can make or break a director or an actor, cool or clinch a deal. Hedda's chit-chat can materially affect the outcome of schemes involving millions of dollars. She is a self-appointed judge and censor of all that goes on in Hollywood, and she carries out her assignment with a hey nonny-nonny...
...television system (there are 25,000 British television sets-more than twice as many as in the U.S.), Gillian Webb is pretty as a picture. But it took a deal more than a pretty face to persuade sober BBC to give one of its top television situations to a chit of a girl. To get the job, Gillian had to beat 400 other applicants...
...much red tape, but there would be no extra food expense, and to the men of those classes broken up after three or four years leave of absence, such a project would be well worth the small amount of extra printing or bookkeeping involved. Ninety cents out of the chit book seems an unnecessary alternative to an even more costly meal at the Square...
...University's counting houses had the veterans muttering. For the average G.I. who must meet room and board payments out of the $65 that Mr. Julian and the eagle provide, the $195 assessment for the summer term meant cashing in bonds, a quick trip to the favorite Dean, a chit to see Dean Sperry at the Divinity School, or a combination of all three. And, at the same time, the $195 bill became an obligation that must hang over the vet's head until the monthly good news from Washington finally clears...
Last week, when the Old Vic completed its run, Theatre, Inc. totted up the chit. Sample items: 1) $92,000 round-trip traveling expenses for actors, scenery and props; 2) $75,000 theater rent; 3) $1,000 medical expenses, much of it for laryngitis, some for overeating. The grand total lived up to the sponsors' worst fears: more than...