Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metro's object, as stated in cards handed out to London moviegoers, was to present the love story of Schumann's life within the framework of his music and that of his contemporaries. The love story is a mess; the framework, a huge success...
...Jones thinks that his current campaign has been a success. Nearly 90% of the 75,000-odd who came to hear him, he estimates, favor his plan. Its specifications: present denominations would become autonomous branches represented in a national assembly; the national assembly, in turn, would send delegates to an international world assembly...
...born in a brass bed, brought up in a frame house, educated at a public school, packed off to a proper college, united with his father in the practice of medicine, united with his first love in the business of matrimony. His mother (Anna-mary Dickey) dies. His success-loving wife badgers him into moving to a big city, acquiring a fancy practice, mingling with a phony crew. But when she proves unfaithful, he turns his back on her and high life, and lights out for home...
...gilded throne with a chorus girl on his knee. He learned the magic mechanics of the theater ("I may write bad scenes, but I never write impractical ones"). His first play (The Light, a drama about a small-town girl) left New Haven completely unmoved. His first success was Tickle Me in 1920. After three years and four flops came his first hit, Wildflower, and his first smash hit, Rose Marie (both with Otto Harbach...
...actually pirates, were at least vikings in their methods." If some were above the slave trade, "they were not averse to an occasional sally into the opium trade." Merchant T. Jefferson Coolidge confided to his "Day Book" that "money was the only 'real avenue' to social success in Boston...