Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more serious threats to the success of NRA than such disputes over the Labor Board's powers were strikes that the Board was trying to prevent...
Sidney Howard had graduated from the University of California, studied under George Pierce Baker at Harvard, driven an ambulance during the War, edited Life, written five plays and married Actress Clare Eames before he turned out his first success in 1924. Prior to the opening of They Knew What They Wanted, Playwright Howard, to be on the safe side, got a $50-a-week job on the New York World. He was supposed to start work the day after the opening. He was still abed when Editor Swope telephoned: "I see by the morning papers you don't need...
...OPPERMANNS-Lion Feuchtwangcr -Viking ($2.50). One result of the Nazis' anti-Semite campaign has been to bring Historical-Novelist Feuchtwanger up to date. His best book, Power, was set in the 18th Century, and though Success was a contemporary record it was written from the backward-looking vantage of an historian. But in The Oppermanns Author Feuchtwanger no longer writes as a cool observer of barbarous times but as a member of an injured race. This story of what has been happening to the Jews in Germany will perhaps be taken by Nazi-sympathizers as special pleading. Plain readers...
...began to put him down on paper, was the cast-off son of a furrier in Toulouse. Awkward and ugly, but with the gift of song, he soon made a name for himself. From court to castle he went his amorous and lyric way, wooing his hostesses with varying success. Once, on his way to serenade a lady, and clad only in a wolfskin, a pack of clogs nearly finished his career. Once a jealous husband had his tongue slit. Though he started on two crusades and did his share of fighting against his fellow-Christians, he never got farther...
...elements that make for the success of "David Harum" are all taken from an earlier era when the words "boom" and "depression" were blessedly technical terms. James Cruze, the director, is the man who directed. "The Covered Wagon." The story is almost Mark Twain style. The star is a product of rural America...