Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This seems a small thing, definitely out of step with the Administration's clever and liberal handling of public relations. Mr. Roosevelt's appeal is to the heart as well as the mind. The success of the New Deal depends entirely upon public support. When Mr. Roosevelt becomes "just another President" the fires of patriotism and sacrifice will die, and expediency and self-interest gain the upper hand...
...rate, "Jezebel" is a play too deadly to allow any actress of talent unqualified success. The author is Owen Davis, and his perception of life has not changed much since "Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model." In "Jezebel" he digs out all the old props of Southern melodrama, with the most perfunctory dusting-off, and recombines them in a fashion which the more debased minds might consider "modern." Undoubtedly he had hold of two or three good dramatic ideas when he started, but he ruins them all by psychological flummery. The close of the second scene of the second act, when...
...around the campus are strong on 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' and 'Carioca,' at present. The last piece is now sweeping New York, and will probably have an immediate success in Cambridge...
...handed villain, he does succeed in conveying the impression that he was cold as a fish, unlovable, cautious, secretive, able. As Winkler tells it. the precocious but well-boosted rise of James Stillman from Manhattan cotton broker to president of the National City Bank reads like an Alger success-story. Once in control of the bank, Stillman determined to make it Manhattan's biggest. In two years he ran up its deposits from 12 to 30 million, by the simple expedient (according to Winkler) of quadrupling its gold re serve. The other secret of his success was caution...
...vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with her noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled threads of a financial web in which to catch his father, bring him to his knees. Though details are left vague, his scheme is ripe for success except for money. This he gets at the last minute from a one-armed Englishman, an even more sinister character than himself. Apparently part of their tacit understanding is that the Englishman shall marry Kit's sister-in-law, Beatrice, with whom Kit is more than a little in love...