Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French surrealist poet, André Bréton, gave it to one of Trotsky's secretaries to type. Léon Trotsky chanced to see a copy of the letter on the secretary's desk, and before he could stop himself, he had read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera with 200 pesos ($40) as rent, so as to be free of obligation. Without indicating whether he thought that was enough rent...
...Nietzsche Taught, The Future of Painting, etc.), had worked himself into a nervous breakdown that turned his luck again. He spent two years in bed, unable to read, one more year reading and analyzing detective stories, the heaviest fare his doctor would allow him. When he was able to get around, he took to Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed (by Bruce Gould, now co-editor...
...years a blustering impresario named Guy Golterman pushed and cranked at various makeshift means to get St. Louis grand opera going. Sometimes the singers he promised didn't show up; sometimes the operas he sold tickets for didn't get performed. His hopeful backers nearly always lost their operatic shirts. Two years ago they got tired and quit...
...get my favorite dish, Fish...
...only steel is in their crankshafts and cylinders and it is nonmagnetic. Before she shoves off on her voyages, the clothing of her crew will be carefully searched for metal buttons, nailed shoes which might throw off her compasses by a hair. Big problem for the crew: where to get razors which will shave whiskers, will not shave the accuracy of compass readings...