Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holdout against Hollywood blandishments for two years has been pudding-faced, precocious Orson Welles, 24-year-old actor-manager of Manhattan's Mercury Theatre. Last week, when young Mr. Welles put his name to a one-picture-a-year contract with RKO, the terms for which he had been holding out were revealed. The terms: he will pick his own pictures, produce them under the Mercury banner (for RKO release), use Broadway instead of Hollywood players, serve as actor, co-author and director, and all without spending more than 18 weeks away from Broadway. First picture-Joseph Conrad...
...years ago, left college for Hollywood when she won a Paramount "Search for Beauty" contest in her neighborhood in 1933. After two years on the Paramount payroll, during which she failed to set any celluloid on fire, she was dropped, spent a year looking for a job. Warner Bros, put her under contract in 1936. Last year the Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair dyed a shade lighter than life, her teeth in permanent caps, her nubile curves seductively displayed...
...Cooke of Portland, Ore., a steady though unimaginative performer who sprang from 28th place to seventh in U. S. ranking last year and three weeks ago sprang a surprise on the brass hats of the United States Lawn Tennis Association when he reached the finals at Wimbledon and then put up a stubborn five-set struggle before letting Bobby Riggs take the world's No. 1 title...
...years competitive bidding by underwriters has been mandatory under ICC regulations for new issues of railroad equipment trust securities. For many more years than that it has been routine in municipal financing. Meanwhile, a growing number of private corporations have cut ties with their traditional banking houses and put new issues on the block, or placed them privately, often getting better prices for their securities...
...orchids, shrewd Author MacDonald does not write too much about them. He senses that most readers will read his jungle success story for its account of guácharos, birds with whiskers on their beaks (when their young fall out of the nest they plop and explode), trees that put people to sleep, moths whose sting drives men insane...