Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stultifying wiles of Mammon. He is armed with artistic genius that "has something ostentatiously quiet about it," a facility with yellows unequaled since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square...
Zola, in the opening scenes, is the son of a middle-class French family, living in writer's poverty in a Paris garret. He shares both the garret and a single pair of trousers with Painter Paul Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff). One day Zola listens to the story of a girl of the Paris streets, sees in it the material for a novel and writes his first great success, Nana (a tale with which Producer Samuel Goldwyn and beauteous Actress Anna Sten had less success 54 years later...
Birkhoff, Garret. Gives poor, unorganized lectures, although a good mathematician...
Captain Bob Regan, second baseman, and Jim Garret, left fielder led the Jayvees at bat with four hits in five times up. Harvard Varsity Box-Score ab r h po a e Johns, 2b 4 1 1 3 3 1 Lupien, 1b 4 2 2 9 2 0 Bilodean, ss 4 0 0 0 7 2 Owen, 3b 4 2 1 1 0 0 McTernen, cf 5 2 3 2 0 1 Sullivan, rf 3 0 2 3 0 0 Allen, lf 2 0 0 1 0 0 Colwell, c 3 0 1 6 0 2 Shean...
...Paris sewer rat whose ambition was to be a street-washer, rescued Diane (Simone Simon) from her sister, who was beating her with a strap, he wondered why he did it. His emotions became even more puzzling when, after he had agreed to give Diane temporary shelter in his garret, he found that he did not want to let her go. Not until he saw Diane in a wedding dress he had bought her, did it finally dawn on him that he was in love. That was on the day in 1914 that War started. They had barely time...