Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boom Town. Seattle, a city then so new that many a citizen could remember shooting deer inside its limits, was the product of great booms-the migration, which followed the railroad, the Alaskan gold stampede, the frenzied era of shipbuilding during World...
What helps make a Tallulah filibuster spellbinding is the famed voice that can bounce a whisper off the balcony walls. Husky and vibrant (partly the product of childhood croupiness), it can shift without notice from a sigh in a rain barrel to a hoot in a hollow ("Are you ever taken for a man on the phone?" Columnist Earl Wilson once asked her. "No," she snapped...
Smooth, slick-haired and hardworking, Charley Binaggio, 39, moved into control of Kansas City's North Side, a riverfront area of dumpy houses and taverns which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press...
...cutting, for clarification, for a different word here, for an additional sentence there. And that is to say that although Signature is at last getting work by authors who have something worth writing, the magazine is not yet supplying editorial assistance to those authors to make the finished product polished and consistently first-class...
...biography-in-progress of a fictitious German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, who was born in 1885 and died insane in 1940. The biography is being written during World War II by his lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind v. regimented thought, the relationship...