Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Washington, Administration officials were doing a little more than just thinking. They were trying frantically to scrape up some dollars. They had some success...
Another chapter, entitled "Harvard and its Clubs," is successful through its collection of interesting material, but it suffers from Amory's common sin of omission: not probing deep enough. Through the book, and even in the murder story, the author fails to tell "why." We may know all about Parkman's slaying, but nothing is said of the reasons why Boston was so shaken. But the old anecdotes bear repetition, and the new ones are often as good; so the book is generally a success, if taken as a collection of interesting memorabilia...
...with a long history of success against hostility outside the musicians' union behind him Petrillo is facing as his most imminent danger the possibility of internal breakup...
...creates a young lady that every male member of the audience would like to meet even if she did not do a genicel strip-tease under the precarious shield of a large beach robe. Miss Lockhart is a compoient actress, but there is a persistent impression that her success resis largely on the suspicion that she herself in just the kind of young lady she portrays...
...Zionist puller of strings at Lake Success said that a Russian-American deadlock would be disastrous to the demoralized Jews fleeing to Palestine...