Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the 17th revision on a six-year-old playscript, bestselling Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) decided that she would stick to novels: "I am absolutely through with playwriting . . . through with being the vehicle for producers' inarticulate creative writing urges . . ." Producing a novel is "not as glamorous as the theater," but it has a certain "dignity...
First-day buyers got a neatly laid-out paper, a weak line of comics, Columnists Billy Rose and Tom Stokes, Edith Gwynn on Hollywood, a sport column by the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith-and no news to speak...
Guardian Angel. In Memphis, Fred Smith explained to the court why his car had crashed into Noel Vaughan's house: he thought that somebody else was driving...
...activities to the left, and with one or two exceptions, so was the rest of the committee. In the fall and winter of the first year, they attacked Harry Bridges, Frances Perkins, Frank Murphy (then governor of Michigan), Harold Ickes, and other notables. Father Coughlin, Gerald L. K. Smith, and patriots of that kidney were somehow unnoticed. George Sylvester Viereck, who was chummier with Hitler than Lanny Budd, skipped away without any damage whatsoever...
...reciprocal gesture, Smith College was given the job of bringing about 50 European students ever here for the summer...