Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abundance and a dash or so of moving drama. The picture fails, if at all, in being too long, occasionally too slow. It has departed at times from the moving picture formula of pictorial action in an attempt to gain nuance by drawn-out monologues and dialogues, which ordinarily succeed only when surcharged by the vitality of flesh and blood players...
...Vacation From Love" also holds a brief for hedonism, specifying that marriage can succeed only on a round of pleasure. It is improbable, disjointed, but fairly amusing...
...surprised to read last week in "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round," the political column by Drew Pearson* & Robert S. Allen which is one of Janizary Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Mr. Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency...
...outstanding educational innovations currently attracting attention here are the Littauer School and the Nieman Fellows. Whether any school of public administration can obtain concrete results in a government dominated by politically swayed factions is questionable; and the Nieman Fellows have been labeled by many newspapermen as "too idealistic to succeed." They older systems of education were idealistic, but today's keynote is realism. This changed viewpoint is the reason why many alumni taught under the older system wail loudly at the glaring lack of interest in culture at present. The spell-binders of yore are disappearing in the teaching ranks...
...nearly a year and a half before Reformer Tunney's outburst, D.S.I. members got along like gin and whiskey on an empty stomach, squabbling over a permanent chairman to succeed the late William Forbes Morgan. Last week they found one with enough soul to satisfy even Gene Tunney. By unanimous consent they elected as executive director Dr. Wesley A. Sturges, since 1923 professor of law at, Yale University...