Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Roberts is working, he works all day, sometimes relaxes at a movie while Secretary Mosser types his notes. One movie at which he did not relax: M.G.M.'s Northwest Passage. Says Roberts. "They cut the guts out of it, they gummed up the characters and balled up the plot." He is determined not to sell Wiswell to the movies. "It will be a good insurance policy for Mrs. Roberts," says he, "and it will be just as good ten or 20 years from...
...businessmen's clubs, the Duquesne is among the richest and most discreet. Its big, squarish, brownstone-fronted building in the centre of the Golden Triangle is the citadel of Pittsburgh tycoonery. There Mellons, Scaifes, Weirs, Benedums, McClintics, other Pittsburgh bigwigs eat, drink, relax, play poker, shoot craps, make deals. Some 35 corporations maintain suites for business purposes at the Duquesne...
This system is open to abuse if the $37.50-a-week casters relax their ethics. Frequent have been the charges of corruption in Central: that extras buttonholed casters on the street, slipped them a few dollars; that they mowed casters' lawns; that they presented casters with money orders on Hollywood stores; that they sent their clothes to be cleaned at specified cleaners with currency deposited in specified pockets. Year ago these charges were taken up by the Hollywood Reporter, which revealed that a local detective agency had been hired by the Screen Actors Guild to ferret out any misdemeanors...
...uses of this earth-here to live, to suffer and to die-O brothers, like our fathers in their time, we are burning, burning, burning in the night." But Thomas Wolfe might have lived longer to write greater things, if someone had explained to him one simple word: Relax...
...dark, quiet room the investigators put the patient on his back. They passed a slender tube through one nostril into his stomach, so that a sample of the stomach fluid could be tapped at any time. They talked soothingly to him, urged him to relax and think peaceful thoughts. When he was in a good frame of mind they took a stomach sample. Then they began to talk with him about other things (with the tube through his nostril he could talk well enough)-unpleasant things, things that made him resentful, anxious, angry, frustrated. They continued their calculated tactlessness till...