Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Telephones clang and people rush through the city-room, the way they always have in the movies, in this latest saga of the newspaper world. But the old-fashioned belly-laugh finds a fruitful haven in "His Girl Friday," with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell carrying off most of the honors. The story, what there is of it, is nothing new; girl reporter divorces the boss and decides to quit for a quiet home life with an insurance salesman. Boss dislikes the idea, and with the help of a real reporter's murder story gets girl back. Salesman goes back...
...further announced that the Rockfeller Foundation has awarded the Graduate School a five-year grant to "assist in the development of the general program of training in the government service...
...Scottish Chauffeur R. MacBurnie: "If you cannot grant me my liberty, by which I mean my freedom of conscience, then I ask you to sentence me to death so that I may die with a clear conscience. If you are not going to sentence me to death, I should like to catch the 5:20 train." Verdict: unconditional exemption...
...majoring in American state and local government at Harvard, Sendak said he was writing a thesis on "Government of the Northern Indiana Metroplitan Area" where he successfully campaigned for the election of Republican Congressman Robert Grant of South Bend, Indiana...
...Joyce's own writing the book contains, among other things: several of his letters to English Publisher Grant Richards over Dubliners-as shriveling a statement of the artist-publisher situation as has ever seen print; an extraordinarily beautiful letter he wrote to Ibsen when he was 19; two invective poems which suggest Swift's and are quite as good. One of them, addressed to the Dublin littérateurs he held in such contempt, ends with these proud lines...