Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than class discussions at their worst. The average section meeting, too often led by an inexperienced man, almost invariably ploughs laboriously and ineffectually in a circular direction through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study of an assigned text, short enough...
...with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark of success. Her novels sold, the ivy on her Manhattan terrace grew, her life and friends operated efficiently. Yet she was lonely. Her closest male companion, an easy-going Philip Barry character named Jimmy (Walter Abel), adored her in an embarrassed, tail-wagging sort of way. Mary wanted more...
That night Lily Pons hung opposite her bed one of the cheap paper strips on which the Metropolitan advertises its performances. To her, more than to anyone else, so great a success seemed fabulous. Only a few months before she had been singing with a second-rate opera company in Montpellier on the Riviera, wondering whether to follow the advice of Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen who had stopped at the opera house and urged her to go to Manhattan so that Giulio Gatti-Casazza could hear...
...natural musical instinct is phenomenally sound. It did not take her long to learn that a prima donna who travels with pets gets photographed: she brought a baby jaguar back from her triumphal visit to Buenos Aires this summer. She also has learned that divorce rumors after sudden success are bad publicity. Separated from her husband, she says: "Divorce...
Sponsored by insurance companies, the Actuarial Society endeavored without much success to segregate subgroups of pilots which would rank as good risks for insurance. Some companies now insure pilots by special arrangement, fixing the rate (always high) after a study of his particular type of flying. Among transport pilots the annual mortality rate runs between 20 and 25 per 1,000. Deaths among holders of limited commercial and private licenses occur about one-half as frequently but their rate per hour of flying is higher...