Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"[But] nearly everything in [radio] is either corny, strident, boresome, florid, inane, repetitive, irritating, offensive, moronic, adolescent or nauseating. . . . Never in the history of humorous entertainment has such a great boon to the comedian come about. But . . . there is something grievously wrong with a business whose outstanding successes [like Fred...
The Jolson Story is the first production job of an amateur: bantam-sized (5 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky. While insisting that journalism is his profession, Skolsky has dabbled in picture-making for years, occasionally walking through bit parts as a gag or tossing out a helpful...
The original texts of The Irrational Knot, Cashel Byron's Profession and An Unsocial Socialist, all long out of print, are now available in a single volume (omitted: Immaturity and Love among the Artists). As novels they are pretty poor; Shaw himself observed that they were "just readable enough...
Cashel Byron's Profession (1882) is best known as the novel which glorified Gene Tunney ahead of his time.* Byron was a professional prizefighter but, like Tunney, he was contaminated by literature, music and the arts. He happened to fall in love with an heiress who combined an income of ?40,000 a year with an interest in Spinoza. In the ring Cashel was superb; Lydia once heard him raging like a lion: "'Rules be d-d, he bit me, and I'll throw...
Elwes not only developed the kind of faith which can move mountains, but his profession and his social position put him near the most useful mountains to move. Lieut. Commander Clare Vyner (R.N., retired), who owns Fountains Abbey, once turned down an offer of ?300,000. Yet, when he heard...