Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North End family home, where he does not live but goes every evening to prepare his only meal of the day. The house is fenced in and shuttered up. When a reporter caught him at the house last week, John Deferrari gave a quick explanation of his success: "I make good use of my time. I know the other fellow's business better than he does. I'm honest too. . . ." As he talked, he sidled through the iron gate, closed it, snapped the padlock. "I've talked too much now," he concluded, and disappeared into the house...
...Lake Success, L. I., Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. & Wife Ethel du Pont (both in absentia) got firm tuts from a police court judge. In July they had been charged with racing each other in their cars; in August, they had got their cases postponed, twice. Now they failed to come to court. Declared the judge after a half-hour wait: if they didn't turn up next fortnight, he would really have to send...
...wrote The Screwtape Letters largely as "a kind of penance," which his friends claim is his attitude toward all his Christian writings. He says he found it the easiest work he has ever done, but that it grew to be "a terrible bore." It was an immediate and phenomenal success on both sides of the Atlantic. Innumerable ministers quoted Screwtape in sermons and urged it on their congregations. Catholics enjoy it as much as Protestants. One clergyman makes a practice of presenting copies to his parishioners with passages marked for their special attention. To date, Screwtape has gone through...
...Unscrupulousness. With Screwtape's success, Lewis became a celebrity. A man who could talk theology without pulling a long face or being dull was just what a lot of people in war-beleaguered Britain wanted. The BBC put Lewis on the air and for three years his short, plain-spoken broadcasts on what Christians believe made him, for his listeners, almost as synonymous with religion as the Archbishop of Canterbury. The R.A.F. even chose him as a kind of Christian-at-large to visit air bases and discuss theology...
Bright Promise was serialized in Good Housekeeping, has been sold to 20th Century-Fox, and is a Literary Guild selection for September. It is not nearly so bright as its success story promises...