Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the rubbernecks' grandstand, Director LeRoy's gratitude and even the qualities of the picture itself will cause the LeRoy version of Anthony Adverse to equal the success of the Allen version is exceedingly debatable. As hard-breathing, swashbuckling sword-&-cloak melodrama it is good but not superlative...
...compositions "as easily as one would fry an egg," did not realize the character of her talent until later. At 20 she married a 34-year-old author of popular romances who had hoped she would help him socially, found that she was too outspoken to be a social success. Soon he published a book called Claudine at School which made both a scandal and a success, and although he admitted that he had not written all of it, witnesses who saw the manuscript afterwards testified that he had written almost none, that it was his wife's work...
...Benito Mussolini, success of the Spanish rebellion might mean more than another boost for Fascism. All over Europe the same rumor was being spread last week. In return for Italian backing and Italian munitions, Spanish Revolutionist Francisco Franco had promised Benito Mussolini to end Spain's present alliance with France and to give Italy the right to fortify Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar, and to use one of the Balearic Islands as a naval base. The Spanish Fascists were a long, long way from victory last week, but if they should succeed and if there were any truth in this rumored...
George Gordon Lord Byron's "lameness was due to congenital clubfoot of the talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected...
...current upstate New York highway safety drive. Last week Commissioner William F. Carey of New York City's Sanitation Department, which operates more vehicles (3,000) than any other municipal department, declared that such temporary safety drives are not "worth a darn." Having tried them without success the Sanitation Department two years ago formed a permanent safety division whose sole job is to decrease accidents by rigorous investigation and constant regulation. Since then, accidents to the department's trucks have steadily declined until last month they reached a new low of .188 per 100 pieces of equipment...