Word: objection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After reducing himself to an object as piteous and work-ridden as an aged charwoman's knee, Toombs wails an old refrain: "Waking up in the morning is the worst mistake that a housekeeper can make. You have the awful feeling that you are in debt to the day . . . Housekeeping [is] certainly the hardest job I . . . ever tackled...
...They Like It?" King's detractors complain of his relative musical ignorance and object to his top-sergeant tactics in rehearsing for hours over the simplest phrases. His critics are also bitter because some "original Wayne King compositions" (Josephine, The Waltz You Saved for Me, Lullaby for Latins) are actually the work of several musical collaborators. To objectors King has an invariable answer: "The test is, do the people like it?" So far, they have...
...little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does not object to pressagents trumpeting his praises. Recently, when Jack Warner ordered a publicity blackout on Wald, ostensibly to cut down demands on his prize producer's valuable time, Wald put up a fight and got the order reversed...
...other exhibits are war clubs, blowguns, wooden drums, flutes and grinding stones. Beside each object from the Americas is its Oriental counterpart. The people on opposite sides of the great ocean even shared, and share still, a peculiar vice: chewing narcotic plant materials mixed with lime to release the alkaloids. In southeastern Asia the substance chewed is betel nut; in Peru (where no betel grows) it is coca leaves, the source of cocaine. The little gourds to hold the lime and the decorated spatulas for dipping it out are almost the same in both widely separated regions...
...most important product in rural America is children-not wheat or corn or flax ... The object of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, among other things, is to make the rural pastor conscious of the importance of his profession and of its dignity ... The Church is the biggest single factor in building up rural communities...