Word: make
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many people said it wasn't liberal any more: some man came one day and wanted to make a speech, but "The University" wouldn't let him because it said he always lied to the government; but people said the real reason was because he had a black beard, so "The University" wasn't liberal. But the next day "The University" announced that because everyone wanted to cat their turkey on a different day, and because people should do what they wanted to do, it would serve turkey every day for a month and a day. And this was very...
...people on his side. He knew that people loved to eat better than anything, and that they spent most of the year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting for Thanksgiving and the Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected like Hell...
...collaborators start their "star-chamber sessions" of writing. Every line of dialogue is written together. From start to finish, a play takes anything from five weeks (You Can't Take It With You) to seven months (The Royal Family), depending on the trouble it causes and the make-up of Kaufman's collaborator. Kaufman & Hart usually work much faster than Kaufman & Ferber...
...every business as it was finishing, and made a total of $4 among them." After leaving high school, George started studying law because it seemed a good way to put off working for several years. But after three months he quit, because he couldn't make heads or tails...
Page, in his position at right outside, was the star of the game for the Harvard forces. Not only did he make his two scores after nine minutes and 18 minutes of the first period, but he peppered the Bruin goal with shots all through the game...