Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it was all over, half the audience applauded, half booed. By the time the second performance came round, even Choreographer Leonide Massine got cold feet, whittled down the plaster-breasted woman's breasts, and draped her in a shawl...
...work in a hatband factory. He also began contributing to F.P.A.'s column in the old Evening Mail. Eventually F.P.A. invited him to lunch, disillusioned him as to what writers looked like, but found a job for him on the Washington Times. When he lost that, Adams got him another on the New York Tribune. Later he became a dramatic reporter on the Tribune, when Heywood Broun was dramatic critic. Broun-who wanted to work at something else-in "a burst of bad judgment" lent his job to Kaufman. After reading Kaufman's reviews, Broun took...
...altogether fooling when he insists that constant work is 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...
...completely unathletic. "Ring Lardner once told me that the only exercise he got was when he took the links out of one shirt and put them in another. That goes for me too." He does play croquet, however-with a fierce desire to win, as he plays parlor games and bridge. Called by Ely Culbertson "the best amateur bridge player in the U. S.," he hates playing with his dub friends, tackles the experts without getting hurt, peppers the game with such comments as "I'd like a review of the bidding, with the original inflections...
...spite of the arrival of the biggest buyers the U. S. has seen in a generation there are relatively few war orders to date whose actual existence can be confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to correlate purchases to keep from bidding against each other, so they have been cautious in other ways. Mindful that this time purchases in the U. S. are for cash, which has to be laid on the barrel-head, they are shopping carefully. For the same reason Britain is buying everything...