Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago World's Fair. He makes a fortune out of Sandow, the strong man, loses it at Monte Carlo, recoups in London by a contract with Anna Held (Luise Rainer) whom he steals from under the nose of his arch rival (Frank Morgan). He gives her a dozen orchids every day, makes her famed for her milk baths, eventually marries her. At this point, The Great Ziegfeld soars from the prose of fictionized biography into the poetry of revue. For 20 minutes, a huge revolving staircase exhibits showgirls, dancers and tableaux while a tenor sings A Pretty Girl...
Small Town Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemactress Janet Gaynor occupies a unique niche in Hollywood. She is one of the half dozen pre-talkie stars who are still front rank box-office attractions. This phenomenal record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small...
...conference is designed to give the undergraduates who participate the greatest possible opportunity to find out how public problems are handled. Direct contact with men who shape the nation's destiny from day to day will prove as stimulating as a dozen text books. With the three estates of faculty, business, and officialdom mixed together at round tables, the clash of conflicting opinion will open fresh and fertile fields of thought to all concerned. Furthermore, since all remarks are to be "off the record", the discussions should bring to light private feelings and convictions, unpublished in the press, which will...
Before Richard Leo Simon and M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster formed a publishing firm in Manhattan a dozen years ago, nervous young Simon had been a salesman for Aeolian pianos, shrewd young Schuster a newshawk who played the violin for fun. Though they never play together, Publishers Simon & Schuster are both still impassioned amateurs of music. Lately it became evident that the duet, whose profitable puzzle-&-game volumes set the book-publishing business by its ears, was venturing into the stodgy realm of music publishing...
...return to the original point, we tend to lean toward the Music Department and their suspicions--and at any rate we should certainly shudder at the thought of several dozen tons of metal shimmying overhead in their makeshift moorings...