Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expert bootblacks are at a premium. But if dirty work doesn't appeal to our feminine tastes, we can easily qualify as first-class laundresses and chambermaids...
Faulkner's neighbors were still more amazed when they saw the fruit of these monkeyshines. Faulkner's tomatoes, heavier than average, brought premium prices; he grew sweet potatoes in two months instead of the normal four; he harvested five pickings of beans instead of the usual...
...books are to be selected by a Gallup poll of the club's own members-"a people's book club organized to provide books selected by the people for the people." The first pre-Gallup selection: Marcia Davenport's best-selling novel Valley of Decision. First premium (for joining): Lloyd Douglas' best-selling The Robe...
...when Sigmund Romberg took some of the numbers Spialek had orchestrated for his Rose of France to Paris, Romberg copied off Spialek's orchestrations in his own handwriting for fear he would lose face with the French producers. But in show business, as elsewhere, there is a premium on speed and efficiency. And specialists not only orchestrate faster but better than most musicomedy composers. In the U.S. today only German-born Kurt Weill (The Beggar's Opera, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark) does every note of his own orchestrating himself...
...follow printed journalism's tradition of a free press. But there has been constant trouble. Commentators can and often do convey their own feelings toward news merely by tone of voice. Their daily entrance into 30,000,000 U.S. homes is very inti mate and puts a premium on voice rather than on brains or integrity. This accounts for the fact that much of the output of U.S. radio pundits is pontifical tripe...