Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Withdrawal of support did not mean that the studios would stop lobbying for their own pictures. And, as Hersholt quickly pointed out, an Oscar was not just an artistic laurel but a box-office lure as well. At week's end, apparently reconciled to the latest twist of the tightened Hollywood economy, the academy's board of governors decided that the money would have to be scraped up somewhere else, but the Oscars would carry...
...story as told by Gene Fowler, whose biographies of other gifted scapegraces (John Barrymore in Good Night, Sweet Prince; Manhattan Lawyer William Fallon in The Great Mouthpiece; Denver Publishers Bonfils and Tammen in Timber Line) were bestsellers. Fowler writes of "the good old days" (a phrase that seems to mean the '205 now) sometimes as if he had a fistful of firecrackers, sometimes as if his pen had a tear duct. But the material (much of it new) lends itself perfectly to the Fowler flair for the sympathetically lusty tale...
...Salvaged from a frigate which sank off the Dutch coast in 1799 with ?1,000,000 in gold aboard, ruining many underwriters. The bell hangs over Lloyd's center rostrum, is rung by a "waiter" in scarlet and gold. One stroke means disaster at sea; two mean good news...
...nearly so well known is its 200-year-old sister society, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It rates the seaworthiness of the vessels that Lloyd's insures, keeps day-to-day tabs on 30,546 ships, and was the first to employ Ai to mean tops. (To get the rating, a ship's construction must be approved by Lloyd's surveyors...