Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Joe Kennedy wrote his epitaph of Paramount, many a Wall Streeter figured he was dead right. Paramount had just stumbled out of bankruptcy without appearing to shed any of the overgrown ineptitude that had put it in there. Adolph Zukor put Paramount together in 1912. Its roots were in the days when nickelodeons were gold mines and Mary Pickford made her first $20,000 a year. An expansionist of such resolution that the trade began calling him a monopolist, Zukor bought stars and studios until Paramount and Hollywood were synonymous...
...pronounced three different ways... and where during one civic riot the taxicabs charged mounted cavalry like tanks-and won." He also talked to President Manuel Avila Camacho, who is "about as colorful as a slab of halibut," but "steady, cautious and efficient." In Mexico Gunther shed some common U.S. illusions: 1) that Mexican Presidential terms usually end with assassination (there are seven ex-Presidents living in Mexico today); 2) that all Mexican Governments are overthrown by violence (none has been overthrown since...
...partisan political forum, similar to the ones in existence in other colleges all over the country, could shed light on this darkness, and provide a political bill of fare for the socially unconscious majority, to rival the literary and artistic offerings of which Harvard is justly proud. It could draw big-name speakers to Harvard that small groups cannot hope to attract. It could organize thorough and frequent discussions on current affairs, which would not suffer from any partisan aims. It could prepare reading lists which might be used independently or in connection with tutorial work. Such a forum could...
...town's famous son, said he would create one if West Hartford would raise $16,519 to pay expenses. When public-spirited West Hartfordians kicked in a mere $3,700, Sculptor Ziolkowski was hurt, but agreed to carry on. Saying that the money would not provide him a shed to work in, Ziolkowski borrowed a trailer and carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall. There, stripped to the waist, Sculptor Ziolkowski hacked and chiseled. He turned night into day with glaring floodlights, rang West Hartford...
...stifling night last week, while stripteasers in a burlesque theater next door shed their clothes before an almost empty house, Juntoists crammed into the Academy of Music for their inaugural mass meeting. They were greeted by Mr. Lewis, University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas S. Gates, School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard and Franklin Biographer Carl Van Doren...