Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gospel on the beauties of the sweet-and-simple life, ranting against the Futility of Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing, it can settle back for an hour or so and enjoy the ermine and champagne...
...principle of the training involves a discovery made several years ago by the School of Education. It was found that the success and speed of a reader varies as the number of stops he must make for each line of type read. The number of halts of the Yardlings used for the research was reduced from ten to six in the short period in which they have been working...
...current arms program and the attempt to make a major issue out of foreign affairs is merely an effort to find something that will transcend party issues. Roosevelt realizes that he has lost the emergency support that made his first success possible and that if he is to retain control of the party he must appeal on new issues...
Practice will last until May 1 with one week out for the Easter vacation. In that space of time Dick hopes to get a real line on the Freshmen and to do a great deal of the necessary work towards next fall's success...
...pictures I've worked in, I preferred 'Gabriel Over The White House,' the veteran actor said. "But just like so many other Hollywood productions this was produced to fit the times. Although it was very interesting and a propos at the time, it could never prove a success today...