Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week before Greer's contract was to expire, word came from the studio. In his search for Mrs. Chips, Sam Wood had tested half the top-flight actresses in Hollywood. Desperate, he asked for every test M.G.M. had ever made, and for the first time became aware of Greer Garson. She was it. They would go to London at once for the shooting. Greer took the part chiefly in order to get away from Hollywood and back to England. Her spine has not troubled her since...
Thus James Lincoln subjected himself to a very considerable financial risk. Item: he is now in the courts defying the Navy to renegotiate him out of $3,250,000 of 1942 "excess profits" (this is the first fullblown test yet of the renegotiation law). Item: he has also gone to court to contest a Treasury ruling that he overpaid...
Openings were available at Harvard, apparently, because the Reserve group here has dwindled. The A-12 tests given on November 9 have not yet been scored, and the fact that Harvard's Army Group term periods do not coincide with the A-12 test schedule causes delay in filling vacancies...
...Glass Hat, Famous Door, and Beachcomber. He might still be 1'ving on his larynx if a friend had not said to him : "Sonny, I can't understand why you're not in pictures." Neither could Sonny, so he went to Hollywood. For his screen test he chose a solemn chunk of Liebestod which had originally been strained through velvet by Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne, played it for laughs. When he saw Sonny's test, Producer Mark Sandrich, who was looking for a lackadaisical Kansas Marine for So Proudly We Hail, nearly rolled...
...thousands, and of him Whitman said: "I could not keep the tears out of my eyes." Statesman of the Intellect. During that time Whitman was subjecting his prophetic and poetic vision to a more intense test than any of which literary history has knowledge. Few poets of that age considered their verse mere ornaments of daily existence; they were rather generals and statesmen of the intellect and emotions whose creations had a tangible, profitable and practical application to ordinary life. Yet even among them Whitman was exceptional; he alone insisted that he knew what America...