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Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...
...space of five solid minutes, while photographers shot him, radiomen adjusted microphones, moviemen flapped their arms around his head in signals, he held his mouth in a radiant, frozen smile. "How do you feel, Governor Dewey?" In an emphatic baritone, pausing after each word, he said: "I feel swell...
...most likely sufferers are reliable, conscientious, hardworking, ambitious people. They want everything just right, so they overload themselves with responsibilities and then get tense when they find that they can't finish the outsize jobs they have tackled. Their "pernicious emotional states" make the arteries in their heads swell, causing the excruciating pain of migraine...
Under the tumult and the shouting, observers felt the confident, mighty ground swell of a party moving forward-a party that, after long exile, knew itself once more as representative of the nation...
Despite much of this sort of discipline, embarkation was a staggering problem. Boats rowed into the darkness and were never seen again. In the heavy ground swell, towropes parted and snapped like whips. Propellers came to a dead stop, fouled by wire, wreckage and "human obstruction" (corpses...