Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel, a process server cornered Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, handed her: 1) a subpoena to appear as a witness, 2) 50? for carfare, 3) 50? for a day's fee. Occasion: a $150,000 libel suit brought against Collier's by Joseph R. Levy, divorced husband of Paulette Goddard's mother, be cause, he alleged, a story was published saying he was Paulette's stepfather, not father. Cinemactress Goddard failed to show up and the court decreed a command performance on Jan. 16 in which she should tell why she should...
Most distinctive hallmark of the streamline-builders is the sleek, shiny gleam of Budd trains. Only Budds are made of stainless steel and only Budds are likely to be, as long as the Philadelphia plant keeps a tight hold on its "Shotweld" process for welding stainless sheets together. Invented by Budd's Chief Engineer Colonel Earl James Wilson Ragsdale, onetime professional Army officer, the "Shotweld" machine is a foolproof, delicately balanced electrical device that can be operated by unskilled labor. In less than the winking of an eye (1/20 of a second) it sends a stabbing electric current through...
...long as it's the seat of his pants which is the butt of his publicity pranks, Mickey can have a good laugh and other people can laugh with him and everything is fine. But when he starts poking fun at the legislative process and at the principles of law themselves, the laugh turns to a whinny. When Mickey introduced his latest resolution about the deletion of Lenin and Leningrad from the Cambridge scene, and then proceeded to secure its unanimous passage by the Cambridge City Council, he destroyed all the faith anyone could have had in his sincerity...
...result of this and other stories, most musicians felt that the play might be a success, but that it would be a commercial and not an artistic one. They felt that the book was undergoing typical Broadway treatment and being completely slaughtered in the process--the casting of Hawkins being an example...
...Guiterman smile is teasing-the smile of a verbal sweetmeat-maker who knows how words can be tenderized, much like prunes, to please the palates of the literarily refined. Guiterman's tenderization process consists in rhyming and chiming big and little, tough and honeyed words together, and packing them into tight verse forms, that insure a close misfit...