Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something of a financial necessity. A generous man, he has never worshipped at the shrine of Compound Interest. "All I know," he once said, "is that I have earned a great deal of money and I haven't got any of it. If I don't get a hit each year I am in a damned...
Travels. Kaufman was born in Pittsburgh of a middle-class Jewish family who "managed to get in on every business as it was finishing, and made a total of $4 among them." After leaving high school, George started studying law because it seemed a good way to put off working for several years. But after three months he quit, because he couldn't make heads or tails...
Filling the stage with the Day family, unctuous rectors, unwelcome relatives, tearful and transient servant girls, and forwarding the story with a protracted conspiracy to get Father baptized, Life with Father bowls pleasantly along. The first two acts are rather upsy-downsy, with some of the humor forced and thin, but the last act turns hilarious, with Father finally departing for the font in a shower of laughter...
Father (Howard Lindsay) is a rigid reactionary who, to get his own way, turns the worst kind of anarchist. With all the convincing changeability of the weather, he blusters and blows and comes away emptyhanded, while his Vinnie (Dorothy Stickney) scoops up the prizes. Given to impulses and to oldfashioned, faintly apoplectic swearing, Father understands very little of the world, and nothing at all of his wife. He would certainly not understand, for example, why for stage reasons his family is shown, in the play, eating breakfast in the living room. "My God, Vinnie!" he would howl, "a gentleman eats...
Friends of the Supreme Court in this case were SEC, ICC, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson. Mr. Douglas thought the Court's friends were right, that the common stockholders had pulled a fast one on the preferred, ruled that they could get their foot inside the door of the reorganized company only if they paid their way in with new money. The decision thus strengthened the hands of bondholders, preferred stockholders in future reorganizations. Wrote Mr. Justice Douglas...