Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position to judge best may be offered by two facts: 1) he is still, in permanent rank, only a colonel, although some officers whom he outnumbered in peacetime now wear permanent stars; 2) in spite of any shortcomings in performance, he was kept on in his huge job, the success of which was vital to the success of the Allied campaign in France...
...Military psychiatrists are reducing mental disease by establishing preventive systems at military posts. Success is often shown by a decrease in AWOLs...
...antifascist journalist (Michael Redgrave) who raged through the 1930s with a Cassandra's customary success, retires to sit out World War II on Thunder Rock, in a Great Lakes lighthouse. Embittered, soaked with liquor and self-pity, he is content to let the world go hang. While it hangs, he entertains himself by conjuring up in his imagination a number of immigrants from Europe who drowned near his lighthouse a century ago. Before long they all but take on flesh & blood, act out for him the tragedies and the defeats of their own lifetimes...
Youth Runs Wild is not a very competent film nor, as entertainment, is it likely to be very successful. But it contains elements which are far superior to competence or success. Indeed, the hope for great films in Hollywood seems just now to be shared about evenly by Val Lewton and by Preston Sturges, with the odds, perhaps, on Lewton. Lewton wholly lacks the Sturges brilliance, adroitness and comic gift; he probably hasn't it in him to make a wow. But his feeling for cinema is quite as deep and spontaneous as that of Sturges, and his feeling...
...Unlike most show people, Ed Wynn did not come up the hard way, and he has been a success from the start. He began as Isaiah Edwin Leopold, son of a rich Philadelphia ladies' hat manufacturer...