Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy 'Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...
...practice, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis put up research funds. Then, in the School's machine shop, Sarnoff,* with the help of Dr. Leslie Silverman, began assembling transformers and rheostats. Soon they had a machine which could deliver regular pulses of an electric current. It was too small to produce a shock. But, applied to the phrenic nerves of monkeys, cats and dogs, the current made the breathing muscles work rhythmically...
...movie trade lingo, a sureseater is a small "art" theater specializing in upperbrow films for upperbrow audiences. The word was originally used to suggest that every seat is sure to be filled. A skeptical Hollywood crack favors another interpretation: whenever you go, you are sure to get a seat. Last week the Hollywood joke rang hollow; having grown in a year from 226 to 270, U.S. sureseaters were booming. Symptoms...
...such pleasures, the art theaters' customers seem increasingly willing to pay premium prices (up to $2.40) while admission prices elsewhere are slipping. Because the theaters are small, the runs are long...
Actually, Fields was just doing what came naturally. He was eternally suspicious, intensely competitive and even at the peak of his career morbidly fearful of poverty. To avoid sudden bankruptcy, he developed the habit of starting small bank accounts all over the U.S.; at one time he had 700 of them. Once Gene Fowler saw an eye-filling roll of bills, $4,000 worth, in Fields's pocket. Asked what the money was for, Fields answered in a tone that closed the discussion, "It's getaway money...