Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strengthen its hand in negotiations, the union began a campaign to dispel the notion that its members are an irresponsible lot given to ill-timed whimsicalities. First step was a display of testimonials to the courtesy, cleanliness, service, honesty & sobriety of American crews. Not the least expert among them was a wire from restless Cornelius Vanderbilt: "I have been up all night during storms and have never yet seen anything being destroyed by the crew...
Princeton won from Pennsylvania by a score of 45 to 30. Harvard beat the Quakers 57 to 18. Princeton defeated Dartmouth 49 to 26, while the Crimson crushed the Indians by a 53 to 22 score. Comparative scores show a lot in swimming because most mormen turn in pretty nearly the same times every race. They can usually be depended on to take the same places they've been taking...
...agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries so high that "to meet the demands...
...Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance has also the charm of being the least camera-conscious. So far as Tommy was concerned, he never acted at all: "All I did was what I was told...
...relations regard him as the black sheep of the family, confess that "his poetry still fuddles a lot of us." At present Eliot is working on a modern play laid in an English country house, but with a substratum of Greek drama...