Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1908 Merchant Peter Kessler took Johnny Edge into his business of running and later producing two-reelers. At first they are tightly fenced in by the movie combine, but through Johnny's shrewdness and Peter's stubbornness they break the monopoly and set up Magnum Pictures in Hollywood. Johnny serves in World War1 I and loses a leg, an injury which results in his psychic hardening, followed by his abandonment of sweet young Doris Kessler for a nymphomaniac actress, Dulcie Warren...
...With his magnum opus, Faust, which he began in his 20s and worked over repeatedly until just before his death at 82, Goethe raised a poetic monument to himself that is comparable to those of England's Shakespeare and Italy's Dante. An ardent sideline scientist (he discovered that the intermaxillary bone in apes was also present in a rudimentary form in man, and developed a new theory regarding the nature of colors), he took special delight in noting the similarities that related phenomena of the most diverse kinds. When his son, August, showed no particular interest...
Hunky. Over a magnum of champagne, M-G-Magnate Louis B. Mayer signed up Dore Schary, thus became Hollywood's first to profit from Howard Hughes's shake-up at RKO (TIME, July 19). As executive producer and Mayer's No. 1 man, Schary will direct production of all M-G-M pictures, draw a salary of about $5,000 a week. Punned an M-G-Mster: "Now everything will be hunky Dore...
Four "30-Minute Club" members will compete for the magnum-size, sterling silver Darcey Cup to climax Blake Dennison's annual singles regatta on the Charles this afternoon. The cup was given in memory of Thomas J. Darcey, Jr. '37, by his father. Darcey, who won the American Henley Double Sculls Championship in 1938, lost his life in Lake Erie eight years...
...their course catalogues and found that the customary thesis for honors course was no longer listed. This absence would continue the thesis for honors system, while denying thesis writers in fields like Economics the half-course credit they currently may claim for the work they put in on their magnum opus...