Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dispassionately observed Political Pundit Frank R. Kent: "Probably the facts will never be fully known. To a detached observer, however, two things seem clear. One is that, without in the least doubting the veracity of Mr. Wallace or Mr. Davis, somebody connected with the AAA knew a lot more about this movement than they. They would, of course, welcome an investigation and it would establish their complete ignorance and innocence. Nonetheless, somewhere down the line, if all were known, there worked the hidden hand of a really skillful 'public relations counsel...
First calamity was the death of Director Lowell Sherman from pneumonia, when he had shot about one-third of the picture. Second was an attack of pneumonia for Miriam Hopkins, in the middle of a ballroom scene erected on a rented Pathe lot. Director Rouben Mamoulian, hired to replace Sherman, scrapped all the scenes made by his predecessor. A sequence carefully pieced together from 6,000 ft. of negative was burned in a projection machine and had to be recut, which took a week. During these tribulations, Jock Whitney flew to the coast nine times. Final difficulties with Becky Sharp...
...lot had happened in the interim...
Burly, whimsical Author Christopher Morley was appointed Honorary Night Watchman of the Columbia University Press. Salary: 2 ? per year. Said Watchman Morley: "It will certainly be a lot easier than Al Smith's job as Honorary Night Superintendent of the Central Park...
Edith Cavell is the best of the lot...