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Anecdote of the Week: An Admirable Vocabulary

Anecdote of the Week: An Admirable Vocabulary

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Nov 09, 2009
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She regarded Gable as lazy, not too bright, and an unresponsive performer (though she was always laudatory about his kindness and good manners to her). She could not understand how he could leave the set promptly each day at six p.m. as though he held an office job. She seldom left the studio until eight or nine at night and worked six, often seven days…

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