Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Durable Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, with a nice 39-week TV contract to see her through this year, said bluntly: "Three-D will be a flash in the pan . . . The only real future for films is in developing some kind of box to collect money for movies...
...Kalgoorlie on the very edge of the great Australian desert-detectives at last caught up with Norman Morton-Stewart. He was down to his last eleven shillings elghtpence ha'penny. Charged with vagrancy and clapped into a tin-roofed jail that crawled with cockroaches, he put in a collect call to England. "Darling!" cooed his faithful Lady Barbara, "don't worry about anything! When are you coming home...
...Angelo stiffens and begins to wave his arms and hands like a Stokowski working over the climax of Death and Transfiguration, while the patient describes his sensations. This lasts from ten minutes to half an hour. Then the wizard slumps back in a sweat and pulls himself together to collect a fee of $16 (but only, he insists, from those who can afford it). With identical treatments, D'Angelo claims to be able to cure "all psychic or nervous disorders," such as paralysis, phobias, migraine, insomnia and loss of sight, hearing or speech. Since most such cases are hysterical...
...sailed for a long cruise in the barkentine St. George, which visited remote islands in the Pacific to collect specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. But I myself was never employed by the museum; I just went along for the trip. I have also studied medieval armor for my own pleasure . . . But I am not in the true sense an expert ... In fact, at the present moment, my sole occupation is writing books, an ill-paid and precarious employment. I wish I had a niche...
...occupation," said one visitor. "You could tell by just looking at a person whether he was going to help, and no one had to look far to find sympathy." Women joined their menfolk to work on the broken dikes. Children were let out of school to help collect money and supplies. Queen Juliana contributed a bundle of her own and her children's clothes and set out on a tour of the flooded areas. At one point her car got stuck in the mud. "Come on," called the Queen, suiting the action to the word...