Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course without benefit of clergy. The higher official moral standards of Hollywood bring Matrimony to Ellen (Loretta Young) and Dick (Robert Taylor) quite early in their attachment. He is home for the summer, and she has only lately taken service under Wroxton (Basil Rathbone), a tyrannical butler who collects a personal assessment, sometimes amatory, from the employes he engages for the Winfields. Failing to collect from Ellen, Wroxton tells the Winfields she is in difficulties. Follows the historic line: "So I'm not good enough to be your son's wife. I'm only good enough...
...there all bets were off, and the show, taking its cue from him, went really wild. Cody and his equally temperamental manager, "Arizona John" Burke, sometimes had differences. Cody once wired him: IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN WITH THIS SHOW YOU MUST OBEY MY ORDERS. To which Burke replied collect: WHO THE HELL EVER TOLD YOU I WANTED TO REMAIN WITH YOUR SHOW BRING OUT THE BAND LET IT PLAY HAIL TO THE CHIEF ITS A MATTER OF RECORD THAT COLUMBUS WAS PUT IN CHAINS AFTER DISCOVERING AMERICA AND THAT THE JEWS CRUCIFIED AN AWFULLY GOOD...
...this condition, the Council remained utterly inattentive except when it was necessary to pay bills or collect pledges. Pressure was exerted through other agencies and the courses were reformed to a great extent; two members of the Council forced through a revision system of Freshman elections which made them somewhat intelligible; finally, the Union Committee became conscious before its term expired and made some order out of the chaos of first year extra-curricular activities and provided reviews for Freshman course work...
...colleague's loyalty but a more personal debt. When he was a young man of 30 and she a widow of 45 they met, and she rescued him from the slough of "a miserable love affair" by taking him around to peasants' cottages, setting him to collect their folklore. She kept lending him money so that he could write what and how he pleased. Till he was nearly 50, Yeats's writing never brought him in more than ?200 a year. Until she was 50 Lady Gregory never thought of writing herself; when she tried her hand...
Near San Jose, Calif., Dentist Jasper Gattuccio came upon a rickety old cart drawn by a brace of burros, saw in it a picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled...