Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nimble-minded, solid citizen Schacht juggled accusations as though they were blocked marks. He could not deny that he had gambled on Hitler's success (once Schacht had said that with Hitler he was either "walking to a monument or a scaffold"). Now Schacht took the line that, as a good Christian and as a good businessman, he had always opposed war and wasteful cruelties. "Hitler deceived the world, Germany and me. . . . I would have killed Hitler personally if given the chance...
...president, David Smart, and claimed $250,000 in damages, $200,000 of it for Esquire's use of an unsigned Varga girl. Vargas also hinted at something closely resembling mental cruelty. "Uncle Dave" Smart, he said, had urged him to live in a style that would "exude success...
Odell Shepard is an idealist, a writer, a lover of Connecticut, a wanderer and a teacher. So was Bronson Alcott, hero of Shepard's Pulitzer Prize biography (Pedlar's Progress). Alcott was a failure at almost everything he tried; Shepard has been a success...
...secret of Idler's success in this half of their double bill undoubtedly lies to some extent in its choice of a play within its acting means; failure to practice this preachment proves the undoing of the remainder of the program. The Yeats translation of "Oedipus" may be meat for Laurence Olivier and the Old Vie, but it is so far beyond the resources of Radcliffe College and associated institutions as to make any effort at producing it almost worthless...
With 61 years of virtually unbroken success, the old hotel has played host to many distinguished persons, including Presidents Grant, Garfield, and Arthur. Among the huge parties given there was the 70th birthday celebration of the poet Whittier...