Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edgar Degas lived to be 83, grew to be as cantankerous as Whistler, morbidly jealous of the success of younger men, but in his younger days the suave and sociable Manet was one of his best friends. Because of this friendship Degas, already an established artist, showed his pictures in the famed first exhibition of the Impressionists in 1874, was infuriated for the rest of his life when critics continued to call him an Impressionist. Painting outdoors gave him a cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas...
...Symphony Orchestra through its tenth, most gratifying season (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Long before her last concert it became clear that the Opera's loss was the Symphony's gain, that the woman's orchestra might look for more subscriptions, bigger patrons this autumn. Flushed with success, many patrons felt that a more dynamic, impressive conductor than Ebba Sundstrom should be billed. As a compromise, they packed her off to Europe to hobnob with composers, improve her languages, acquire polish. Back she came this fall to an orchestra moved into the big Chicago Auditorium, to a board...
...kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful ways to success, disgrace or both...
...customary to judge the success of a season by the actual record, that of the team of 1936 does not tell the whole story. An uphill struggle from the time it was announced that certain key players would not be eligible this fall; the constant work on the fundamentals of blocking and tackling; and speed and timing, which resulted in long touchdown marches in the Princeton, Navy, and Yale games; and especially the development of team morale and fighting spirit--these are the factors which do not appeal in the record, but which made the season of Captain Gaffney...
This young girl (Her real name is Emelyn Pique) is today one of the nation's cutest eyefulls. Diminutive but vivacious, she is a phenomenal success at twenty. She's destined to go places. Though she has acted in several movies, her present preference is with the stage, for she needs an audience with its various silly giggles, smiles, and forms of seriousness to put her dancing over...