Word: whims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...money it was his holy duty to spend it. In 1926 he backed a Broadway play, The Ladder, for an old playwright schoolmate. Believing in its theme of reincarnation. Angel Davis stubbornly kept the play (a flop) going for two years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear into his pet "deep oil" holes. There is a legend that in answer to a cable from...
Brother Orchid (Warner). The making of movies is ringed about by taboos. But no commercial taboo is quite so terrifying as religious touchiness. Nevertheless, Hollywood has never been able to master an occasional whim to toy with the dangerous topic of religion. Brother Orchid is such a toying. It celebrates the spiritual regeneration of Edward G. Robinson (a gangster) by monastic life...
...different story was told by those strategic commodities (especially rubber & tin) of which the U. S. is short and may be shorter at the whim of Japan. Spot rubber held during the worst of the panic "at around 23?, ended the week down only 2∧ because of general liquidating pressure...
...forced to do because of its rigid budget. But, principle or no principle, the students are willing to pay for what they want, and are well organized and determined to get it. This is the first plea to receive more than an abrupt "No!" In no sense a whim, or mere nagging at the University, it is based on the fact that at present Chemistry concentrators are barred from practically all extra-curricular activities by time limitations. It's time they got a break...