Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After becoming a successful portrait painter, Woolf rebelled at last because a sitter's tailor complained of the way Woolf painted his client's suit. Turning to lithography, he was hired by the New York Times to do illustrations for its book and feature sections. The idea of doing interviews with his sketches came from an encounter with George Bernard Shaw. Turned down when he called personally to do a sketch of Shaw, Woolf wrote him a Shavian letter, saying that "immortality will not be yours until I have drawn you." Replied Shaw: "I have now considerable experience...
...most nutrition into the least space. Chief recipient of these suggestions is the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration. Originally a mere pail to catch U. S. surpluses and distribute them (via stamp plans, etc.) to reliefers, SMA has now become an agency whose client, though a reliefer, is so important to the U. S. that it may change the whole character of U. S. farming...
...them about the strange ways of the U. S., or translate for them letters that they could not read. For each service Alexander Alexandroff exacted a fee-as little as 5? , as much as $1.50, sometimes a package of cigarets, but always something, and always in proportion to a client's ability...
Among the Wylie standouts of the past season: My Client Curley, Norman Corwin's adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's tale of a fabulous dancing caterpillar. Best comedy: Jack Benny. Best western: The Lone Ranger. Best daytime serial: Pepper Young's Family. Best talk: The President's Address to the Science Congress. Best music continuities: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the John Kirby Show. Best newscasters: Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams and Raymond Gram Swing. Best spot reporting: James Bowen's description...
Recently two enthusiasts were persuaded to feed each other chunks of blueberry pie while blindfolded, making appropriate dinner-table chitchat as they went along. Another client was ordered to put a birdcage over his head, sing Listen to the Mocking Bird. More terrifying was the experience of a gentleman who had to lie on a bed sheet in the middle of the studio stage and pretend to be a male seal wooing his mate. To add zest to his performance, a real seal was quietly placed beside him which barked happily down his neck. For thinking up such consequences, listeners...