Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companion piece at the Met is "Murder Over New York," in which a new Charlie Chan tangles with a sabotage gang. The new Charlie runs as strongly to proverbs as did his predecessor, Warner Oland, but the late, unlamented fad of "Confucius Say's" has removed most of the punch from Oriental witticisms...
...grammar is frequently dubious, and his off-the-air accent is close to pure Broadwayese, he is convinced that he is far ahead of his professional rivals. Since he began, he has passed the ex-convict Marion Sayle Taylor (The Voice of Experience) and left his "Good Will" predecessor A. L. Alexander far behind. Mr. Alexander is now running something called the Board of Mediation over Manhattan's WHN, and Mr. Anthony regards any comparison between him and the mediator as preposterous. As a matter of fact, he thinks he is essentially more experienced than most orthodox psychiatrists...
...Reporter Topliff hired a boat, rowed down the harbor to meet incoming ships, got his news fresh from the passengers before they landed. Six New York City dailies later followed suit, outfitted a harbor boat, started a news pool. They called it The Associated Press, and it was the predecessor of Victor Lawson's agency...
...Latourette admitted that Christianity "has had its ebb and flow." But "each high-water mark has reached farther than its predecessor, and each recession has not been so low as the one before it." Though the Church is now under fire in Russia, Germany, Japan and elsewhere, "the decline has been at least in part offset by numerical and territorial gains and by new currents of life...
...Stars in Your Eyes," he had the irrepressible combination of Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante to put across some of Cole Porter's best songs. Last year Bert Lahr's contortions replaced Durante's wheezings and the resultant "DuBarry Was a Lady" was as much a hit as its predecessor. And now the Shubert stage has DeSylva's latest offering, with Miss Merman the lone star, surrounded by a cordon of well-known and capable performers drawn from the stage, screen and good old-fashioned burlesque...