Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most fiery speaker was former Air Minister Pierre Cot, renowned for baiting Adolf Hitler, who contended that the Mediterranean would no longer be free if the Italians were allowed to hold to the Balearic Islands, hinted that French deputies had been influenced by Nazi anti-Bolshevist propaganda, wound up by describing Germany's internal weakness. Said M. Cot: "The Hitler regime's only hope lies in bluff or, at worst, in a short war. Thanks to the excesses of Nazi rule France can now count on ten American workers behind every French soldier...
WANTED: Position as cartoonist with newspaper or magazine art department. I am American born, a high school graduate with character, good sense of humor, and ambition to earn and hold a cartoonist's job. Have studied subject five years, done mimeograph and pen-and-ink work, sold a few cartoons. Further samples of work and complete personal history, with references, upon request...
...invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained comic dialogue he cannot hold a candle to Shaw...
...most big agency production units pay a basic wage of about $25 for a 15-minute stint, rehearsals included. Featured Artists Service, Inc., the Hummert casting agency, pays a basic $12.50 but rehearsals are briefer than most and great numbers of players get fairly steady work (a serial can hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week A. F. R. A., having failed for a year to negotiate minimums of $15 a 15-minute program...
Ghost Town. Jefferson is saturated with the memory of old feuds and old sins. In eight of his books Faulkner has traced its history through the stories of its once-great families whose descendants still hold on, whose legends still remain. Violent, formless, the books are packed with scenes of murder, suicide, insanity, horror, give as unsparing a picture of social decay as any U. S. novelist has drawn...