Word: funning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be accused of writing A Book of Miracles for money. One of Hollywood's highest-paid writers (The Front Page, Let Freedom Ring, etc.), he forswore 15 months' salary to write it. (His movie salary is around $6,000 a week.) But for Hecht it was "fun writing what I want-without having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with dead-pan vehemence, a sort of Ouija-board mysticism, a little sour cream of human kindness...
...Cupid, Puck, and Duty have fought for his attention, and he has reveled in their very battling. Once, so long ago, when he was a mewling prepster. June meant the end of another school year was near. It meant only that summer--an idyllic period of freedom and fun--approached. It meant a return to those hazy blue mountains which Vag loves...
Wisconsin's students are fun-loving, friendly, athletic, many of them farm bred. Wisconsin's Clarence Addison Dykstra, 56, is serious, hardworking, cold, a political fencesitter. Arriving at Wisconsin two years ago to clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally...
...until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have fun...
...Fun-loving Moran once set himself to find a needle in a haystack (time: 82 hours, 35 minutes); sold an icebox to an Eskimo; peddled advertising for display on barbershop ceilings...