Word: oil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of uncritical adulation which began with the Frank Lloyd Wright piece [TIME. Jan. 17] seems to have gotten out of hand in your current blurb on Corcoran & Cohen. Please remember that what your customers expect from you is salt, with maybe a dash of vinegar: but never oil and never sugar...
Architecture, Banking, 4 each; Advertising, Astronomy, Certified Accountant, Biological Research, Electrical Communications, History, Museum Work, Sociologist, 2 each; Army Officer, Stage Design, Furniture Design, Engineering, Astrophysics, Accountant, Cotton, Paint, Shipping, Broker, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Dentistry, Dramatics, Forestry, Mathematics, Orchestra Conductor, Radio, Oil Geology, Oil Industry, Meteorology, 1 each...
...differ concerning Hollywood's financial rewards. Hart believes they could make more money there than on Broadway, but prefers to forego it because he loves the theatre. Rodgers feels that a Hollywood income may be more certain but that only in the theatre can musicomedy writers really strike oil...
They have struck oil in the theatre often enough, but there have been a few spills. There was Betsy, the flop they did for Ziegfeld. "Ziegfeld should have been a movie producer. He didn't know the first thing about music, yet he constantly butted in on the scores." Ten Cents a Dance, the biggest plum they got out of another Ziegfeld show, Simple Simon, they "practically slipped in over Ziegfeld's head...
...Wazemmes, a sign painter's apprentice; their stories, appearing in alternate chapters, seemed to be related only in being laid in Paris at the same period. Later volumes described intrigue in the Catholic Church and the formation of a mysterious secret society. They introduced a young scientist, an oil magnate involved in a love affair with his partner's wife, a munitions maker with curious vices, a broken-down novelist, a successful dramatist, students, schoolgirls, fortunetellers. Major theme linking the characters was an awareness of the danger of war, which influenced their moods, their actions and above...