Word: featly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austere Wage. Wald modestly denies that his weekly production feat is a one-man job. "That's a crazy idea. How could one man-even me-do so much? I get the best writers and directors in the business and I let them do their jobs. I just supervise and advise them." Actually, his "supervision" calls for a ten-hour day of directing his writers, writing his directors, casting his actors, cutting and editing film, reviewing musical scores, sets and costumes, compromising the clashes between the commercial mind and the artistic temperament. Most of his spare time, with...
...private plane to Rochester expecting to watch more golf than he played. Long before the finals, he was taking bismuth tablets to quiet the butterflies in his stomach. He had never been so close to a major golf title in his life, although he had accomplished the almost incredible feat of winning the Grand American trapshooting championship...
Next day, as the overloaded Tusk slid into the harbor of Hammerfest, Norway, almost all of the town's tough, seawise population was waiting on its fishing wharves to salute a feat of courage and seamanship...
Philip was the youngest of the 26 people who had sv urn the Channel; his time was the second longest. Socialist Britain hailed Philip's feat of endurance as evidence that the welfare state was not softening Britain's youth. Ossett (pop. 15,000), Philip's home town in Yorkshire, prepared a big celebration. But his schoolmaster predicted that fame would not go to Philip's head: "He's a sound lad." Although Philip had stolen her thunder, Shirley May prettily congratulated...
...National Board of Review. A Sea Change, his second novel (his first, Chalk and Cheese, was published under a pseudonym in England in 1934), goes to show, as history has shown, that a good literary critic may also be a good novelist. Not only has Dennis performed the rare feat, for an English novelist, of bringing American characters back alive; he has caught them in a story of human and universal comedy...