Word: sweetening
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...agent and guarantees to split any losses with concert promoters, Led Zeppelin keeps for itself a whopping 90% of gross profits, compared with 50% other groups. Last year's 34-city Zeppelin tour of the U.S., arranged by Grant, earned an estimated $4 million for the group. To sweeten those figures-and his own income, estimated at $500,000 a year or more-the mammoth manager last week announced the birth of Swan Song, Led Zeppelin's own record company. With Grant as president, Swan Song may prove to be only a prelude...
...order to get Mr. Corcoran to retire without having to fire him, the councilors told him they'd sweeten up his pay," Danehy said...
...also charged that "in order to get Mr. Corcoran to retire without having to fire him, the councilors told him they'd sweeten...
...White House, Harry Truman once wrote to a music critic who had snickered at Daughter Margaret's singing that the fellow would be needing a jockstrap if they ever met. Now it turns out that advancing age and tranquil retirement in Independence, Mo., did nothing to sweeten the tongue or soften the wrath of the 33rd President of the United States. In a book appropriately titled Plain Speaking, to be published in February (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Truman displays all of his oldtime fire...
Down through the centuries, no civet has been found to sweeten the toxic war between the sexes. Every seeming peace is breached: no cease-fire is ever signed. Perhaps that is why the theme has exerted such a powerful hold on the imaginations of dramatists, for the playwright must rely above all things on conflict. And the scourging struggle between a man and a woman whose love has turned to hate is probably without equal...