Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, opposing judges had reached a shaky truce: they would keep courts functioning until the state Supreme Court untangled the mess. Said one judge uneasily: "The court may find that neither set of judges may serve...
...began in 1924 because Marcus Loew's Eastern theaters needed more films. Neither Loew's own studio, Metro Pictures, nor his friend, Producer Louis B. Mayer, could keep up with the demand. The big chance came when another fledgling named Sam Goldwyn decided to unload his Culver City studio. Loew's Inc. put up $5,000,000 worth of stock for Goldwyn's lot and launched it, under Mayer's supervision, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...with playing the villain's role. For years, and as recently as LIFE'S Round Table on the movies (TIME, June 27), they had heard familiar squawks from Hollywood: theater owners take most of the film industry's profits, run the fewest risks and keep its output down to mediocre level by calling the turn for the moviemakers...
...admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields, a dog-loving storekeeper advanced him credit, and the whole countryside conspired to keep his secret when he did a little moonshining to get the family through the winter...
Monstrous. In Milwaukee, Arno Frankenstein petitioned for a change of name because people keep phoning and asking to speak to the monster...