Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could remain in good Equity standing unless he joined the cinema Guild." By last spring Screen Actors Guild, now 10,000 strong and thoroughly publicity-wise through the leadership of such luminaries as Robert Montgomery (Guild president) and Franchot & Joan Tone, had little need for Equity support when it wrung a 90% closed shop from Hollywood producers. President Gillmore's consolation was a sketchy group of radio performers which Equity still kept under its thumb. I Last week the actors in this quiet little drama emerged from the wings to play their parts on Unionism's stage. What...
Last January Dirk de Jonge was released by the Supreme Court from a sentence under Oregon's Criminal Syndicalism Law. Several weeks ago three Mississippi negroes were granted new trials on the grounds that their confessions had been wrung from them by torture. The decision on the Scottsboro case is well known. No one doubts the good job done by the Court in supporting civil liberties, but appreciation of this part of their work has frequently been lost in a welter of words on the political, personal and economic bias of the Court. It seems that in the heat...
...treat with it. Last month, Mr. Howard's representatives announced that "in the spirit of the Wagner law" they would talk with a Guild committee representing editorial workers on the New York World-Telegram. Last week, after hours and days of wrangling, the New York Guild Committee wrung from the management a statement that the World-Telegram would negotiate in the "hope and expectation" of arriving at a contract which would "definitely and specifically recognize the Newspaper Guild of New York as the chosen bargaining agent of the World-Telegram employes...
...Poultry Show in Manhattan last week were a 42-Ib. turkey, a "talking goose'' which performed on the NBC Children's Hour. Jimmy Walker paid $500 for a pair of Blue Azore chickens to take down to his new farm on Long Island. An addled architect wrung the neck of a prize gamecock, tried to make off with it under his coat. But the prime news of this annual gathering of fowl fanciers, the biggest in 23 years, was its display of the largest number of ornamental pheasants ever exhibited at a U. S. show...
Repaired during the intermission, Piano No. 1 was wheeled forward and Casadesus undertook a Chopin ballad. Before he had got through 20 bars the pedal dropped off again. Pianist Casadesus leaped up, wrung his hands, sobbed, "I'm sorry," bolted backstage for the attendants. Only one attendant could be found, so Casadesus had to help him push back Piano No. 1, bring forward No. 2. While they were straining with No. 1, a leg fell off. Half hysterical, the pianist put it back on. He was about to sit down at the relief piano when an unidentified clergyman seized...