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Word: ekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Weekly on Wages | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...tongue in my cheek, in bed, probably wearing a silk dressing-gown and shaking with cynical laughter." Like Coward's plays, Present Indicative strikes many a theatrically effective note of frankness. When he was a child-actor in London he used to steal waitresses' fourpenny tips to eke out his meagre lunches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fair-haired Boy | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...being given the munificent sum of $1,500 a year. I cannot understand why Congress fails to realize that the men of the Secret Service who occupy hazardous positions are entitled to adequate retirement considerations." Retiring Chief Moran, long famed for his lack of communicability, said he might eke out his diminished income by writing his reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Service Shift | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Earlier in the season the Mitchellmen defeated the Ithacans 7-6, being forced at that time, however, to score two runs in the ninth in order to eke out the win. George Tittmann, who pitched the first game, will be sent back to oppose them on Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY NINE OPPOSES CORNELL IN LEAGUE GAME | 5/8/1936 | See Source »

Richard M. Derson '37 wielded a handy racquet to eke out it win from W. F. Howe, Jr. (U. R. C.); 17-16, 17-14, 13-15, 15-10. John L. Clark '36 took the final match from Lothrop Withington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Boat Club Squash Aces Defeat Varsity Racquet Men | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

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