Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anatomy of Happiness. Do wealth and fame bring happiness? To Betty Grable the answer is yes. "I have what I want," she says, "and I am what I want to be." When her contract at Fox expired recently, she annoyed businesslike husband Harry by signing a new one with no raise in salary and no provision for outside pictures. When Boss Zanuck, who sometimes begins to believe his own press-agents, grows overambitious for Betty, she recalls him to reality. "Betty," he told her excitedly in 1945, "you're going to get the break of your life. I want...
...weekly Automotive News found that many thought the industry was beginning to price itself out of the market. Associates Discount Corp. reported that monthly payments "now run almost as high as two weeks' pay for the average factory worker." Gene Pratt, vice president of Detroit's Contract Purchase Corp., figured that 70% of potential new-car customers had been "absolutely" frozen out, thought the market could crack overnight...
...eliminate costly returns because of imperfections. To avoid waste motion, production has been so simplified that, says Carl, "our employees can work blindfolded." Lee Skirt treats its 50-odd employees well, and except for oral agreements on wage boosts has never had to alter its nine-year-old contract with the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World in 80 Clichés," Westward Ha! is both a juicy parody of the average globe-trotter prose...
Griffith tried writing for pictures, but the Edison Co. rejected his scenarios. When (in 1907) they hired him as an actor, to wrestle with a stuffed eagle in an old-fashioned cliffhanger, he attached himself to the movies and never, voluntarily, left them again. But until his third contract as a director with Biograph, his pride would not permit him to sign himself David Griffith...