Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained for the Yorkshire Post, a newspaper controlled by the family of Eden's wife, to report a more astonishing possibility: that Lord Beaverbrook may succeed Eden at the Foreign Office. Growled the Post: "Lord Beaverbrook's dynamic energies have more than once rendered the country valuable services, but he has never displayed a great interest in the affairs of Europe, and tact in negotiation is not commonly regarded as one of his outstanding gifts...
...abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late Marvin Mclntyre...
...flashbacks they tell Cinemactor Rains the story of their crimes, their sufferings, their escape. It makes for steamy jungle cinematography and theatrical but heartfelt political talk, which barely succeed in suggesting a fantastically heroic, patriotic allegory. Once the men are through talking, the Captain, in the film's best bit of acting, announces the French armistice. Then he secretly sets his course for England. The Fascists stage a mutiny and are defeated. The Fascist radio operator gives a Nazi bomber their position. The bomber's guns rake the decks murderously before Humphrey, Bogart, singlehanded, shoots it down. Cinemactor...
...South Pacific as deputy commander went the man Towers succeeded, 62-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, who has commanded destroyer and cruiser divisions during his tours of sea duty. To succeed Towers: Rear Admiral Charles A. ("Baldy") Pownall, who bossed a carrier force in the Gilberts invasion...
Desti Rides Again. Sturges' brilliant, successful yet always deeply self-sabotaging films suggest a warring blend of the things he picked up through respect for his solid stepfather, contact with his strange mother, and the intense need to enjoy himself and to succeed which came from 30 years of misery and failure. From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect...