Word: earns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members of His Majesty's Government ignored a Laborite M. P. who attempted the role of Cassandra. "The most dreaded contingency...
...main statistical premises: 1) average life of all new Broadway shows in 1936 was 5.12 weeks; and 2) six out of seven actors are engaged in only one play per year, a figure established by a Billboard survey in 1934. On this basis, an overwhelming number of actors who earn $40 to $90 a week averaged between $204 and $504 as their annual theatrical incomes in 1936. In the $100-$199 wage bracket the yearly figure was $510 and $1,014. These figures were apparently more than guesswork on the magazine's part, for of all the wage contracts...
Showfolk know that many an Equity card-holder does not expect to earn his or her living entirely from the stage, takes on radio, film, modeling, nightclub work to eke out stage earnings. The Billboard''?, distressing figures, however, make it easy to understand why the Broadway axiom nowadays is that it is easier to write a play than cast it, many & many an actor having traded prospects of unreliable pay on the stage for modest Hollywood film contracts...
...almost unanimous vote, Johnnie Harkness was elected captain of next year's wrestling team by his seven other colleagues before the opening of the intramural tournament yesterday. Although he did not earn a title in the Intercollegiates last week, Harkness has just completed his second undefeated season in the 175-pound calss...
Forty years ago in a dingy town of Lanarkshire, Scotland, when Phil Murray was 10, he went down into the mines to earn his living. Eight years later, migrated to the U. S. with his family, the studious youngster came out of the mines for good. Working twelve hours a day in a Westmoreland County, Pa. mine, he complained to the weighmaster one day that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike...