Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Object of the Third (Communist) International is the violent World Revolution of the World Proletariat which finds its best chances of success in the upheavals of another world war. Object of the Second (Socialist) International is Peace. Fittingly, its headquarters are in Belgium, its chairman today is venerable Emile Vandervelde, an elder statesman once Premier and Foreign Minister...
...postponement" of Herr Furtwängler's season with the Philharmonic was hailed last week by U. S. Jewry as a signal success in its determined campaign to boycott German products. But Jew and Gentile Philharmonic subscribers alike agreed that the orchestra's directors had been ill-advised to invite Herr Furtwängler in the first place. Practical, old Critic William J. Henderson of the New York Sim called attention to the fact that at least one-half the Philharmonic's patrons are Jews. Said...
...Alley to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went Nacio Herb Brown and his teammate, dandified Arthur Freed, who has been known to order 25 suits at a time. As a youth, Composer Brown sang in a Los Angeles church choir, worked week days as a tailor's apprentice. When success first came to him in Hollywood he bought a lavish estate at Malibu Beach, four big automobiles. Brown's big song hits have been Singing in the Rain, Wedding of the Painted Dolls, Pagan Love Song, Broadway Melody, All I Do Is Dream of You, You Are My Lucky Star...
...prominence thus: Lenin's death left a fearful hole; "some new personality had to be produced for the hundred and sixty millions to revere." Trotsky was considered too dangerous, so Stalin was chosen, deliberately propagandized into the nation's hero. While they admit that Stalin's success has made him irremovable, they plainly infer that he is not also irreplaceable, that the U.S.S.R. would struggle on all right without...
...Prize Novel is chosen for "conspicuous merit and the underlying purpose of the award is to give prominence and success to a writer who has not hitherto found a wide audience." The author must be a citizen of the United States and not have published a novel in book form before January...