Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question depended on the Equity contract clause stating: "The management is not responsible for fire, strikes, or an act of God." Mr. Harris declared the expected MacArthur baby was certainly "an act of God." The protesting actors said it was no such thing...
Equity arbitrators then met, discussed God and his acts. Appalled by the cosmic dimensions of their dilemma, they adjourned, wordless. But at their meeting last week they were so fortunate as to find a way out. They announced that Mr. Harris owed his actors two weeks' salary. Their reason: Nothing in the contracts prevented him from employing a substitute for Actress Hayes...
...they obeyed, aware that Brother Prajadhipok is, officially, King of Siam, of the North and of the South, and of all the Dependencies, of the Laotians, of the Malays, of the Karens, Descendant of the Great God Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...
...God...
...realization that he was unconscious. Later that night after Sharkey, jubilant, had gone to a nightclub with his wife, the rumor that Loughran had died of the punch on his way out of the stadium led friends to call up his manager, one Joseph Smith, who said "Oh my God, no, no, no." Sharkey claims the world's heavyweight championship, but to make his claim good must beat Max Schmeling, now resting at home in Germany...