Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issues from ten of an artist's plates sold out, his fee was raised to $300; when he had doubled this output, it was raised to $400. Meanwhile Impresario Lewenthal scouted around, getting his artists extra jobs in magazine, illustration and display work. His strangest piece of extracurricular job finding came last year, when Cinema Producer Walter Wanger hired nine of Lewenthal's best artists to go to Hollywood and paint scenes from the picture-in-progress, The Long Voyage Home (TIME...
...third new feature will include informal pictures of each major extracurricular organization plus snapshots and articles covering nearly every other organization here. There are at least 30 of these, such as the Stamp Club, the Gliding Club, the Chess Club, the John Reed society, and the Council of Government Concentrators. Moreover, a two-page spread on the club system, with informal snapshots of club activities, will be printed for the first time...
...spite of an unusually strenuous schedule of extracurricular activities in Hollywood's better night clubs, Paulette Goddard remains one of this department's favorite cinema characters. La Goddard with a twinkle in her eye "gives" more than Ann Sheridan with or without sarong, to mix a metaphor. In Second Chorus, her latest picture, which co-stars her with Fred Astaire, the twinkle is still very much in evidence to the great gratification of all citizens of Brooklyn (her birth-place) and other parts of the United States...
Harrowing was his tale. When be became president, he found the college newspaper and student offices run by a leftist minority, the college's huge (14.000) student body without faculty guidance, assembly hall or space for extracurricular activities. He decided to hold student elections in classrooms, make everybody vote. Result: anti-Communists captured 17 of 20 places in the student council. Day of the election, leftists staged a peace demonstration. At an appointed hour, demonstrators suddenly blew whistles in college corridors, rushed into classrooms shouting: "Don't scab on peace." Promptly suspended were the demonstration's sponsors...
Progressive students went in for more extracurricular activities (except athletics), took a more active interest in politics and art, talked more, wrote more, listened to more speeches and music, read more books, went to more dances, had more dates...