Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student interpreter at the Peiping Legation, had specialized in Far Eastern affairs ever since. As second secretary of the Nanking Embassy, he was aboard the gunboat Panay when it was bombed and sunk by the Japanese in 1937. Two years later he was recalled to Washington for a stint on State's Far Eastern desk, returned to China as embassy counselor in Chungking...
Flossy's skillful board has guided her up the ladder from movie-magazine interviews ("with male stars only") to feature writing on Hearst's New York Journal-American to a publicity stint for Duel in the Sun (Selznick dubbed her "The Personality"), finally to radio...
Quick Shooting. One man notably tuned to the trend was RKO's new production boss, 41-year-old Dore Senary, up from writing ranks and a stint as producer for Selznick. Despite all the worry over high costs, he had demonstrated that pictures could still be made cheaply. His newest picture. Crossfire, was produced in only 24 shooting days at a cost of only...
...sufficient money to join the great immigration wave to America and to make sightseeing stopovers along the way at Marseilles, Paris, London, Liverpool, and Halifax. Reaching Boston with one lone dollar to his name, he first worked in a friend's establishment on Essex Street and after a brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking in the erudition of others appeared an attractive substitute. "If you gonna go near a big college," he explains thirty-five years after, "you be 'round the better...
Strayed & Lost. Near San Francisco, five little lambs, their fleece dyed pink, blue, orange, green and yellow, returned to the farm after a stint in a city show window, found themselves coldly, completely snubbed by the rest of the flock- including the black sheep...