Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figuring that they are not, Pioneer Richard Taylor, famed English racing driver, has made eight flying trips to the U. S. in the past two years selling the S. S. with phenomenal success in California and Florida. As every swank Briton knows, there are few cars on His Majesty's roads swanker than an S. S. Not to know what these initials mean is as odd in Mayfair as to appear puzzled when someone mentions the P. M. (Prime Minister). S. S. once stood for Standard Swallow, now stands simply for S. S. Ltd. Last week Pioneer Taylor chalked...
...Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, then took to the road. José Iturbi, the elfin little Spaniard who sometimes conducts, was working his way up the Pacific Coast. In Manhattan such steady oldtimers as Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch were drawing their own faithful audiences. Artur Schnabel was doubling his success of last season. In Detroit Myra Hess, greatest of women pianists, began a tour of 40 concerts. Ignace Jan Paderewski, at 74 the world's best-selling pianist, is spending the winter in his villa on Lake Geneva but he hints at a U. S. tour for next year...
Thus far the efforts of the Boston American to interview Harvard professors for the purpose of asking them to make statements supporting communism have met with little success, since the publicity which has attended the recent Hearst attacks on communism at Syracuse and Columbia has put college professors throughout the country on the alert against falling victim to such newspaper tactics...
...squareheaded little Austrian who refuses to publicize himself and chooses his programs to suit his own taste. To his manager's concern, Schnabel would play only Beethoven at his concerts last year. But when the box-office takings were reckoned he had proved to be an outstanding success of the season...
...Vridar Hunter one more plodding step toward maturity. A poor Idaho farm boy, cursed with sensitivity and ambition, he has weathered a dismal childhood, a hellish adolescence, has married, halfway through his hard-won college career,a pretty slattern. Though he fiercely intends the marriage to be a success he knows the prospects are hopeless. We Are Betrayed is the story of its tragic failure...