Word: want
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When not making pictures, cinema stars make headlines by marrying and divorcing, wooing and suing. When not making laws, members of Congress keep their names and causes before the public by Investigations. This summer these extracurricular activities will be fewer than usual because, in an election year, Congressmen want to be home mending fences. Also because of elections, investigations will be specially designed to provide useful political color. By last week three investigations of 1938 loomed largest...
...artist more than most painters earn in a lifetime. When Representative Sol Bloom, director general of the Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, sponsored a resolution commissioning Mr. Christy to paint a picture called The Signing of the Constitution for $35,000, Representative Allen Treadway of Massachusetts protested: "I do not want to pose as an art critic . . . but I have seen Mr. Christy's portrait of Mrs. Coolidge in a red gown with a white dog and I am opposed to giving him this commission." Other Congressmen, quite willing to pose as art critics, called Mr. Christy the greatest living portrait...
...screen writers employed as of June 4, 1938 shall forthwith hold an election to decide whether they want to be represented at their studio by Screen Playwrights or S. W. G. or neither...
...theory is that they go there and write furiously and successfully because the air contains iodine pounded out of the seaweed by the ocean surf. For himself, unfortunately, the iodine is wasted, since he can write only in Italy, ''where I own nothing, don't want to own anything, have no acquaintances, am wholly uninterested in my surroundings...
This application of the law of usury was a nasty jolt to Mississippi's cotton planters. It meant that henceforth they cannot charge more than legal interest on furnish unless they want to run the risk of supplying it free...