Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although this is Holabird's first work for Idler, he is well known for his recent successes in College, namely "Family Reunion" and "Ascent...
...luscious Lana Turner, this blissful ascent to stardom is not unlike a drastic year-end model change at General Motors. Not long ago the most that was asked of her was to wear a sweater fetchingly. Now M.G.M., after a slight build-up (fatter roles in Ziegfeld Girl and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), has demanded that she act as well as strut. She comes through surprisingly well, although the 1941 Turner may have to undergo a little more streamlining before she can hold the road at high speed...
When Achuni was taken for his most recent afternoon promenade, he committed a definite breach of etiquette by mistaking a silken limb for a tree branch and starting to make the ascent. Fortunately a disaster was averted by quick thinking on the part of a passer-by who plucked the animal from his shapely "tree" and set him to earth again...
...wrote a play in French, Les Pariahs, which ran 100 nights at the Theatre Moliere in Paris. Then he turned to diplomacy and began his smooth ascent in the Foreign Office.* In 1920 he became private secretary to mammoth, crusty Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon. In 1928 he became Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. In 1930 he became Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and that was when his power began. Though Foreign Secretaries came & went, Sir Robert's influence remained so strong that it was said he was one of the three...
...remainder of the cast includes: Leonard Kent '43, star of the Dramatic Club's hit last year, "The Ascent of F-9," Priscilla Freeman, John Darr '42, Rufus Mathewson '41. William Headley '41, Leo Marx '41, Harold Solomon...