Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prices were to be set at a "just" level so that everyone covered costs and earned enough to support him self. Anything more was avarice. A person's position was established by his family's guild, brotherhood or order...
...Columbia University to compose musicals full time. For the next few years he got nowhere. Considering himself a failure at 22, he was about to take a job as a salesman for children's underwear when he was asked to write a one-shot benefit for the Theatre Guild. From this emerged The Garrick Gaieties, which ran on Broadway for six months and contained Rodgers' first hit song, Manhattan. He was on his way. Within two years he had five more shows on Broadway, and suddenly was a young lion in New York and London society...