Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...such, the story cannot fetch a complete response from modern, morticianed man. The circumstances lie outside his experience; it is not the reality, it is only the intensity of Antigone's emotions that can stir him. In Sophocles' version, the plot at least has the psychology of a superstitious age and a religious people behind it-although even this has not kept Sophocles' Antigone from sometimes being accounted a young woman with a decided martyr complex...
...bill in the U.S. Half-yen notes are used as nose-wipers. A group of men spent 35,000 yen on a night's spree at the seaside resort of Atami, taking care to bring their own slaughtered cow for food. Five pounds of black-market rice would fetch 5,000 to 7,000 yen (official price...