Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's death secret from her, explained he was having great success in England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed "Russ," inclosing the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor...
Pathos is supplied when one of Tufts' buddies gets killed in action and another comes home blind, but most of the way the movie tries to be funny, without too much success...
Forcemen were satisfied with the job the outfit had done. Beyond its combat deeds, the inspiration it had given to other outfits could not be measured. But fighting men had a word to explain the outfit's success. The word was "guts...
Former concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestras of Frankfort, Saarbrucken, and Hamburg, Alexander Schneider was second violinist of the famed Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe, North Africa, the East Indies, Australia and America with a success yet unequalled by any other chamber organization...
...competent teacher, and rammed the mysteries of algebra into his boys with great success.' He had 'the lust to teach-a passion apparently analogous to concupiscence or dipsomania, and, in the more extreme varieties of pedagogues, maybe quite as strong...