Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideals is to make money. Already, says Bart Crum, the staggering $15,000 weekly loss has been nearly halved; he hopes to be in the black by Labor Day. Good management will help, and so will such sidelines as syndicating the Star's stable of talent. But the main chance is to steal readers from two tabloids that are past masters of rough-&-tumble newsstand methods. If the Star ever seriously threatens either the Daily News or the Mirror, New York is in for a rousing street brawl...
Henry V was all simple, engaging action, and Olivier gave it a clarion confidence and sweetness. Hamlet is action in near-paralysis, a play of subtle and ambiguous thought and of even subtler emotions. Olivier's main concern has been to keep these subtleties in focus, to eliminate everything that might possibly distract from the power and meaning of the language. He has stripped the play and his production to the essentials. In the process, he has also stripped away a few of the essentials. But on the whole, this is a sternly beautiful job, densely and delicately worked...
...patient. First he cut a piece about two inches long out of the brachial artery, which supplies the arm; the arm has plenty of blood supply and would not be crippled. Then he used the borrowed segment to make a new channel connecting the aorta, the body's main artery, with the coronary sinus, the heart's main vein. He thus reversed the normal course of the blood and made it flow backward.. In effect, he turned a vein into an artery; the heart's capillaries got a new supply of oxygenated blood fresh from...
When London's swank Savoy got into trouble in the 1890s (its stock slumped from ?5 to a few shillings), the management asked the partners for help. By lavish spending on gaudy entertainment (for one party, they flooded the main dining room, served dinner on gondolas to the music of imported Venetian gondoliers), they boomed the value of the stock to ?20 a share in three years. This and other triumphs prompted Ritz's millionaire friends to back his fondest dream-a hotel of his own in Paris, which would be "the summum of elegance." Ritz himself...
...American Democracy has no hero, only a villain-the American businessman. He is not, says Laski comfortingly, any more villainous than his European counterpart (whose predatory impulses are merely concealed under "greater elegance of form"). But he has, Laski believes, unknowingly "adapted . . . the main doctrines of Machiavelli's Prince." He regards the world primarily as "a market which the combined power of high-pressure salesmanship and cheap mass production will open to him . . . Massively energetic in action," skeptical of theories, he considers most politics as "a wanton interference with the natural laws by which businessmen govern society...