Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What characters! An innocent man, convicted of murder, who is incarcerated for twelve bleak years. A wife who abandons him. A mother who never lost faith, and who scrubbed floors for defense money. . . . But the story gets better! And here is where we all come in: "A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a movie." The picture has already been made (Call Northside...
...does not do full justice to the Americans, whether in or out of the Government, who urge a reversal of our partition policy on Palestine. Your story suggests that they are impelled solely by practical motivation. They do, indeed, feel that in determining American policy, insufficient attention has been paid to legitimate overall national interests, but they also feel that partition of Palestine is to be opposed on grounds of morality, justice and humanity...
...backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...
Little attention is paid to cuts if a student keeps up in his College work. Recording attendance also involves an elaborate and expensive monitorial system, additional clerical assistance, and the time of administrative officers which might better be devoted to other duties...
Poet Carl Sandburg, who had been paid $60,000 in advance to deliver a novel to M-G-M within ten months, sheepishly turned in a 1,480-page work called Remembrance Rock-five years late. Explained Sandburg: "I got interested...