Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't agree on revisions, and Harris checked out. Austin Parker (a former husband of Miriam Hopkins) took a $1,000 option on the play, died a few days later. From then on The Fifth Column was batted around the market; finally Hemingway threw the script on the shelf...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This Hollywood Hedy-ache began as a laudable endeavor to bring glamorous Miss Lamarr and her palpitant public face to face again. The first shooting was generally conceded to be so awful that after investing $900,000, the studio temporarily pushed it far back on the shelf while Spencer Tracy made Stanley and Livingstone, producers made changes in the cast, the direction, the Charles MacArthur script. Face-saving retakes cost some $500,000. Result: an entertainment hangover throbbing with the self-evident truism that Hedy Lamarr is quite an eyeful...
...nounced that, while he was dead against New Deal methods, he could see some good in New Deal objectives. To Boss Pew and associated fat cats who run the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania, this sounded alarmingly like rank liberalism. So they bundled Dave Reed back on to his shelf, chose safe and soundless Jay Cooke IV to go up against Democratic Senator Joe Guffey next November...
...tonnage of a modern football team to face these defensive shifts sometimes earns more penalties than first downs. Consequently many teams in recent seasons have reverted to old-fashioned signal calling. The new 25-second rule, in the opinion of some strategists, will eventually put huddling on the shelf with turtleneck sweaters and the onside kick...