Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production, Billy had an idea that "is so simple that it's a cinch to be greeted with screams and derision." The cost of hauling scenery off to the warehouse, then hauling it back again two weeks later and putting it up, says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season...
...sentimental, tough-guy school of prose, horn-rimmed Jack Lait has inherited Mark Bellinger's crown as king of the hacks. He figures that he has pounded out 1,500 short stories, besides 17 books, eight plays and millions of words of news. "Fiction," he rasps, "is a cinch, automatic. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes. Not only do I not rewrite, I don't read...
...Muni, and The Front Page, with Adolphe Menjou and a newcomer named Pat O'Brien. Then he turned to aviation. So far as Hollywood was concerned, he had come, seen, conquered. On one of his very rare visits back to Houston, he said to friends: "Movies are a cinch. The more you spend, the more you make...
...spindle-necked Ichabod Crane-who was as ill-starred in love as in looks and was chased into immortality by the Headless Horseman-would seem likely material for a musical. It comes equipped with standard light-operatic fixtures: period atmosphere, picturesque locale, broad humor, folkish fantasy; it seems a cinch to wire for dancing and song...
Barring quirks of fate or sudden pestilence, Harvard should be a cinch to qualify for the finals, at least at the Varsity level. Neither the Crimson Jayvees nor the Freshmen have proved such strong contenders to date, however, and will have to exert themselves strenuously to stay in the running...