Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaw's first glee club was at California's Pomona College, where he was studying to follow his father into the pulpit. To earn his way, he wrapped bread in a bakery and did some preaching on the side. When Fred Waring filmed Varsity Show on the Pomona campus, Shaw's glee club got a bit part-and Shaw got a job tuning up lush arrangements of Moonlight on the Campus and Battle Hymn of the Republic for Waring in New York. On the side, he trained a glee club for Broadway's Billy Rose...
...away to join the Texas navy, only to be brought home again. His father a West Point graduate and onetime governor of Indiana, said to him: "I am sorry, disappointed, mortified; so, without shutting the door upon you, I am resolved that from today you must go out and earn your own livelihood. I shall watch your course hopefully...
...present the HTW is coasting along on a reputation it started to earn with its extra-massive production of "St. Joan" last year. Its first effort was a unique artistic and financial failure which froze Rindge Tech auditorium, Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon...
...year ago, the Reynolds Pen Co. hired Owens to record the Rocket Song, hoping that listeners would be reminded of Rocket Pens. Owens got a chance to slip How Soon? on the other side of the record. Disc jockeys started playing it, and requests poured in. He expects to earn $100,000 from the song...
...sophisticated implausibilities (Monte Carlo, Ninotchka, Cluny Brown); of a heart ailment; in Bel-Air, Calif. Lubitsch, whose German-made Gypsy Blood and Passion brought Emil Jannings, Pola Negri and a grace-note style of cinema comedy to the U.S. in 1919, was one of the first European directors to earn-and keep-Hollywood's cash-&-carry respect...