Word: bankrupted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the Met didn't seem to know what it had in Cloe when she made her appearance as the gypsy in Verdi's Il Trovatore. She had come to the U.S. from Italy with a little opera company that was stranded, bankrupt, in Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers...
...dismayed to discover that in the emergency program presented to the Congress by the President last Monday, there was not even a mention of China. This is utterly incomprehensible. . . . We have a Government which has no discernible Chinese policy whatsoever. We are bankrupt so far as Chinese policy is concerned...
Twice each year, after the deluge of term bills, a handful of bankrupt undergraduates scurry over to University and Lehman Halls for loans to meet their expenses. For non-veterans these University loans present the best possible solution to financial problems. But for the veteran, waiting patiently for a wayward government check, the current lending arrangement imposes an unnecessary burden on his slim resources...
...sure about one thing: if I die in jail they will just forget all about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money but for art's sake." The money was nothing to sneeze at, either. Though he declared himself bankrupt two years ago, Van Meegeren had made $2,800,000 with his crooked brush...
...Hollywood is a fisherman with an expensive rod," wrote Producer Dudley Nichols (Mourning Becomes Electro) in the New York Times, "and it will not sit all day and go bankrupt and bait its hook with what the fish don't want. And this fisherman has found [that] the abundant fishing is in the troubled waters of adolescence and all its concomitants-violence for the sake of violence . . . physical action for the sake of action . . . glamor that is not beauty, sex with a snicker. . . . Don't blame Hollywood for all this: blame yourselves...