Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playwriting," says Moss Hart, "like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession." On the face of it, Playwright Hart has little to be humble about. As co-author of such comedy classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It with You, as librettist of Lady in the Dark and director of My Fair Lady, he will hold top billing in the American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden...
...began to worry over what will happen when the steel strike ends and steel users return in full force to the loan market. Many bankers think that an end to the strike, if not too long postponed, will create such a demand for money that rates may even take another jump before year...
...delicate areas where it seems important for a man and woman to get along." Tab follows her there, mumbles that he loves her. But Sanders also thinks highly of her, proposes marriage, offers her a name "that's regarded rather like being named Windsor in England." Will she take the baby-faced lad, or will she marry the devoted gentleman with vaults of gold? Sanders gracefully steps aside to allow her to come to her decision, but Tab leans forward again-in Central Park, Staten Island and Grand Central Station-and displays those bald eyeballs. Meekly Sophia once more...
...critic once asked a lady what was the best way of "reaching" Marianne Moore. He was speaking of her poetry, but this was the deadpan reply: "Take the Sixth Avenue Independent Subway at 47th Street, the D train to Borough
Hall-Jay Street stop in Brooklyn; cross the platform to take the A express train, get off at the second stop, Lafayette-the front of the train lets you off nearest Cumberland Street; Miss Moore lives on Cumberland, No. 260, which is between Lafayette and De Kalb; it is a six-story, yellow brick building; she lives in Apartment 18 on the fifth floor...