Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Algonquin's Round Table perished years ago, but it bequeathed Kaufman, Benchley and Dorothy Parker as the town's great wits. Kaufman has proved almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess...
Rhea did not want to be a tipster (though he did well by himself playing the market, averaged $436.19 gain for every $100 loss), but tipster he was to the public. Hundreds went to Colorado Springs to get advice from the great man. He arranged his invalid's schedule so that he worked early in the morning and late at night, was sound asleep when most people called. Soon he had 25 assistants, and his bedroom turned into a statistic factory. Sometimes he composed tirades against Franklin Roosevelt, which were incorporated in his market letters...
...raid the navigator asked his pilot to "pick up Middleton" (a BBC lecturer who talks on gardening). Satisfied that Britons have forgotten none of the talent for first-rate propaganda they developed during World War I, the Ministry of Information announced that similar films on U-boats, convoys, a great military picture about the Maginot and Siegfried lines, were on its production list...
...Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before it was considered impeccable enough to meet the exacting standards...
...skills and habits on which "civilization" rests did not suddenly appear in Greece; they had been kicking around the Eastern Mediterranean for at least 1,000 years. This is made clear in Durant's history, the first written since full publication in 1936 of Sir Arthur Evans' great report on archaic Crete. The almost Parisian graces of Crete's strange society were remembered by the tough fighting tribes who displaced it, settling in Attica and on the Aegean islands. In one variety of toughness-the kind that rebels against concentration of riches and power -the Athenians were...