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When our OBs went to war we began recruiting OGs. In that interval our office girls established themselves and their own traditions. Like U.S. military school plebes sent to fetch "the cannon reports" or "a yard of skirmish line," new OGs now have to find out the hard way that there is no such thing as "striped ink," a "paper stretcher," or the 13th floor...
...night last week the deputy sheriff opened the jail door, and told Roger that Mister Loy Harrison was there to fetch him. Roger's sister-in-law and her husband George Dorsey, just discharged after service overseas with the Army, both worked on Harrison's farm. At their urging ex-convict (bootlegging) Harrison had put up $600 bail to free Roger; the Dorseys and Roger's wife Dorothy were all waiting outside in the car. Mister Harrison would take care of everything...
...last, long look from his mother while the menfolk wait to take him to the depot), and John Henry Lorimer's Mariage de Convenance (in which a weeping, heavily veiled bride collapses in her room, deaf to the happy chirps of two little bridesmaids who have come to fetch her down). They generally admired Romney's pink-cheeked Willett Children for seeming recently tubbed and scrubbed yet true-to-life...
Annie Get Your Gun (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) is a great big follow-the-formula, fetch-the-crowd musical. It bothers with nothing artistic or bizarre. It involves almost as many people as were needed to build the Pyramids, and works the most important of them almost as hard. Star, whip and wheelhorse of Annie is Ethel Merman...
Poor pay is general in the French theater. The biggest stars earn no more than $40 a night; the star of the state-controlled Odeon earns $40 a month; bit parts fetch $2 or $3 a performance. The notorious morality of the French stage rests partly on the fact that many an actress resorts to classic means to keep alive...