Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, at Manhattan's Cavendish Club, the impossible happened: no one was playing bridge. The exclusive headquarters for contract bridge experts had gone all out for a brand new four-handed card game called Check Pinochle...
Then, early last year, everything happened at once. She sang at Town Hall; the Met rushed over with a contract. Hollywood's Gregory Ratoff began looking for what he called a touch of "class" for his cinema biography of Composer Ernest R. Ball; two weeks later, Thebom was in Hollywood singing Mother Machree and Dear Little Boy of Mine. The cameras caught her twice, briefly, but she added the necessary class to the movie called Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...that of a department-store buyer combined with duties as consultant on fashions and grooming. Rarely do my duties embrace more than that. It is not true that I set up deals between David O. Selznick and his players and, specifically, I have never had anything to do with contract negotiations between Mr. Selznick and Miss Joan Fontaine. I do not, as you intimate, attempt to read Miss Fontaine's mind, nor do I under any circumstances, anywhere, at any time, act as "pipeline" or report "powder-room conversations...
...approximately $3,000,000 they got a bargain: Yankee Stadium (original cost: $3,000,000) the Yankee ball club and four minor league ball clubs, 350 baseball players. For himself, MacPhail got a juicy ten-year contract as president and general manager. The once conservative Yankees will never be the same with him around...
...problem faced the New York Post Syndicate, which signed Welles to a three-year contract: would the column hold Welles's interest, as well as the reader's? Welles, who has taken a Hollywood highbrow's vocal interest in the world since 1940, was reassuring. "Right now I'm much more interested in politics and foreign affairs than I am in the theater," said he. "I have set up my life in such a way that I can spend more than occasional time on these interests...