Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grover Whalen and his supporters are just as placid in their own conviction of success. Where, they ask, in any great American city has a man without a machine succeeded in beating a machine? Only Dr. Copeland is perhaps without such placid assurance. The strength he musters must come from a battered Tammany machine, and from the antis-anti-LaGuardia, anti-New Dealers-a vote whose total is problematic. If Grover Whalen wins it will be an historic election. It will mean the end of Tammany as the machine in New York City politics. Barbaric conquerors from the provinces will...
...Patterson's agreement with Mr. Hearst was an elastic one which could be terminated by either party on 90 days notice. She made such a success of the Herald, boosting its circulation to over 112,000 that last January Eugene Meyer, publisher of its morning rival, the Post, offered Hearst $1,000.000 for it. Mrs. Patterson telephoned Mr. Hearst, who suggested that she consider taking over both his Washington newspapers (the other is the evening Times). She said she wanted time to think it over, and meanwhile in April arranged to lease the Herald. Last fortnight she heard that...
...taste of the world that she leaves home to find out what life is really like. This play, A Doll's House, was presented in Central City's old theatre last week. Nora Helmer was played by sly, small Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who scored a huge personal success last year in a revival of William Wycherley's bawdy classic, The Country Wife. Sam Jaffe played the blackmailer, Nils Krogstad; Walter Slezak was the husband and Dennis King took the part of Dr. Rank. Instead of the stilted, outmoded language which mars most Ibsen translations, the play...
When the Revolution broke out Smith and 36 of his veteran fighters volunteered for guerilla fighting in New Jersey. Delighted by their success, Smith proposed to General Washington that a battalion of frontiersmen be recruited to fight Indian style. On the grounds that it would look undignified to have white men fighting camouflaged as Indians, Washington refused. Smith, who by this time "entertained no high opinion of the colonel," went back to the frontier. Still hale at 74, the old Indian fighter stormed because he was not allowed to enlist in the War of 1812. Finally he set off alone...
...theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here and there with success; 2) that the Millay talent for epigrammatic verse, which endeared her long ago to a liberated generation, has profited by colloquial language and a brisk long line carrying echoes of Ogden Nash more often than Shakespeare. Critics will agree that while many of the speeches Poet Millay has put in the mouths...