Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressagent and playreader. The Children's Hour was scarcely off on its 20-month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead End. In 1936 her second play, Days to Come, opened on Broadway, got a poor press, closed...
...small steamer had upset his stomach. The unexpected news that he was supposed to play six lengthy piano concertos during his first week in Manhattan had upset his nerves. After the concert he returned in a panic to his hotel room, where he immediately started to practice for his second appearance. The other guests banged angrily on their radiator pipes. So he went out again, woke up the watchman at the Steinway Piano Company's warehouse, and spent the rest of the night practicing by candle-light in a loft where the pianos were stored...
...second concert," he later remarked, "was much better." But it was not until he had spent another night in the warehouse whipping up concertos by Rubinstein and Chopin that Pianist Paderewski became Manhattan's biggest show since P. T. Barnum's Museum...
...portraits, including one of Revolutionist John Reed, which now hangs in Harvard's Adams House. Brought up a Quaker, he put his idea of art in three words: "Isolate thy beauty." Widemouthed, humorous, stubborn and good company, he earned praise, honor from museums and meagre keep for his second wife and their baby until Depression hit the art market. From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant on the Federal Art Project. After that obscurity and poverty closed in. He wore himself out trying to design and sell andirons and door knockers, was in bitter straits when he died...
Last week, at the Berlin Automobile Show, for the second time in a year Adolf Hitler posed alongside a gleaming sample of his $396 Strength Through Joy flivver. Well did he know, but nothing did he say about the wretchedly slow progress in production of the Volkswagen, which was conceived more than five years ago but will not be on the market until...