Word: shoestringing
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The recent group of contemporary autobiographies has given U. S. readers detailed pictures of the worlds of modern diplomacy, politics, the labor movement, of feminists, spies, social leaders, patronesses of art, expatriate writers, journalists. Last week a blank space in this growing record of current experience was filled in with...
Down to defeat in still another run-off went Democratic Representative Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, whose ten-gallon hat, cowboy boots, wing collar, shoestring tie and advocacy of birth control made him a minor notable in the 74th Congress. Victor on a cowhide radical program...
Buyer of the certificates will be Jesse Holman Jones's RFC. Nevertheless, Mr. Jones is not noted for shoestring commitments. Douglas Sleepers cost more than $100,000 each, and after all 20 are delivered to American Airlines, Mr. Jones's investment will be $1,250,000. This sum...
When strangers call at the dingy house in London's Grosvenor Street where London Films has offices, they are likely to be surprised when a fatigued-looking young man, who has ushered them from an anteroom into a comfortable but shabby little office, then seats himself behind its desk...
The story which these production numbers interrupt, more witty and ingenious than its predecessors, shows a pair of rascally theatrical entrepreneurs (Adolphe Menjou and Joe Cawthorn) engaged in fleecing a stingy dowager (Alice Brady) who hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank...