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...pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each...
...preliminaries took place that preceded the next-day's stirrin'. Down in one corner of the orchard was a group of apple trees known as "Yellow-Sweets." These were par-excellent for making sweet-cider and indispensable for making apple butter. The day before, a big load of cull apples went to the cider press and a dozen bags of the finest, to the basement for the grand apple peelin...
...house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred dollars for kneeling stools for her church or to send a tenant a load of wood day after she has censured him for not paying his rent...
Both Holcombe and Wild felt that it might load to some sort of a conference as provided for under the Nine-Power treaty, which said that if the territorial integrity of China was to be threatened, then the signatory powers should convene...
...interpretation of science to laymen is a different thing in Britain and the U. S. In England star performers, brilliant writers, more or less celebrated scientists with strong personal views have borne the load. The best known books of Eddington, Jeans and Bertrand Russell are as much treatises on their personal philosophies as they are skilled explanations of Relativity and quantum mechanics. Biologist Julian Huxley, brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of the late great Evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley is noted for his opinions about Science & Society, and for exposing the anthropological fallacies of Nazi Aryanism, although...