Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in 17 years the P. O. on W. had convened in Washington (next year it's Portland, Ore.) and the expensive Mayflower Hotel unbent to make the event a social success. Rates were cut to $2.17 per night and 1,560 of its rooms were occupied. Its parlors and lobbies were filled not only with those who dressed like President Combs but with carriers in shirt sleeves, without neckties. The bars did little business, conversation was quiet, and the Washington Herald said admiringly of the crowd: "It was interested and curious, but unawed...
...Italy, had come to think of himself as the most potent man in Europe, was shocked into a warmer enthusiasm for his ally when he saw the magnificently trained, well-oiled military machine that Hitler turned out for his inspection. Last week Adolf Hitler, mindful of his other success, decided to play host again, for a similar useful purpose...
...Success in the Creative Arts (Sun. 7 p.m., CBS) discussed by Professor Lyman Bryson's dinner guests: Artist Rockwell Kent, Actor-Producer Orson Welles, Composer-Critic Deems Taylor...
...else in the world. On most occasions he has simply been cast as a celebrated American dancer. In Carefree he explains that he learned to dance in college, then psychoanalyzed himself to find out what he really wanted, discovered that he wanted to be a psychiatrist. He made a success of his profession, built up a pretty practice among the maladjusted skeet-shooting set. When his friend Stephen (Ralph Bellamy) brings his fiancée (Ginger Rogers) to be psychoanalyzed, it turns out that she knows how to dance too. From then on Stephen never has a chance...
...anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted in a butler part...