Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later productions, been drowned in a flood of dialogue and cute piano-peeking. Margaret Dumont, accused by Groucho of looking like an old tenement, is the perfect foil through bedroom to parlor to bedroom. If S.J. Perelman did not invent the gags there was some compensation in money-maker Leo McCarey's direction...
...teachers, like the pupils, were of all kinds. The Russian instructor, a tile-maker by trade, had graduated from a university in Leningrad. Telegraphy was taught by retired Union Pacific operators. Emily herself had not had much formal education and played schoolmistress by ear. She thought it worked: "It's what a person can do and not the letters after a name that ought to count. I would take a teacher with a high-school certificate rather than a master's degree, if she had understanding...
...little town of Baxter Springs, Kan. (pop. 4,921). The news: the RFC-owned Jayhawk Ordnance Works, giant producer of chemicals for wartime explosives, had been taken over by a private company to make badly needed ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Jayhawk expected to become the world's largest maker of it, cut $3 to $4 a ton off prices to farmers...
Married. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, 35, flapper-era child bride and later burlesqueen; and Ralph N. Willson, 36, former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Break-a-Heart Ranch, near Reno...
...point to the fact that this unmarked slate is not the result of lack of direction from Massachusetts Hall. Thirteen years is only a fraction of the time required by the slow maturing process of a Harvard administration. Five of those years were war years; the chief policy-maker was in the active service of his country. To expect any great change in the workings of the University after only eight years of normal educational activity is to demand precocity of the administration, and precocity is traditionally suspect at Harvard. Whatever evidence there may be of a "tired" faculty...