Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reviewer says: "His peak year...
...Braley's Peak...
...statement which gives the reader the general idea that since 1913 I've been slipping back from that "peak." An idea that is damaging to my financial standing as well as my pride. . . . And the 21 years since have been?except for the depression years?increasingly busy and active...
...DeMille seldom made a picture that cost less than $1,000,000 or one that contained a cast of less than 10,000. By widening the dramatic scope of the cinema, talkies have made spectacles, as such, less satisfying. Youngsters who were in diapers when DeMille was at the peak of his power may sit spellbound before Cleopatra but oldsters who remember his great works with mass in motion will probably feel that, by his own standards, he has foisted off on them a "cheater"?the industry's word for a picture intended to look much more costly than...
...nearly starved, but hung on, sold a few "poems," helped edit Puck for six months, got a lift here, a boost there, made friendships with other writers, editors, artists. Markets opened and checks began dropping in. His peak year was 1913 when he was taken into the Players' Club ("the best club in the world") and covered the World Series in verse for United Press...