Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor view of Sweden's ability to defend herself for any length of time. But with the Swedish navy of light cruisers, destroyers and 50-knot-an-hour motor torpedo boats to harass the enemy, Thörnell could risk a war-provided there was likelihood of Allied success in Norway spilling over quickly to his assistance. Gallup polls have shown repeatedly that the majority of Swedes believe they can avoid war. But they have completely organized against air raids and incendiary bombs. Their Lotta Corps, copied from Finland's modern women's auxiliary military corps...
Fifteen years ago, following a meteoric success in continental Europe, he arrived in the U.S., where he was introduced with the New York Philharmonic under Sir Thomas Beecham. So fast and furious was Horowitz' performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto that peppery Sir Thomas refused to keep up with it. For whole measures, Tchaikovsky's music sounded like...
...large number of officers and their guests attending the course enjoyed the evening, and the success was primarily due to members of Engineering 270 who were so enthusiastically buying tickets weeks in advance...
...success of Mr. Willkie's book has been tremendous, to put it mildly. Within a month after publication, the successive printings of the book have topped one million copies, and "One World" at present heads all lists of non-fiction, surely a record to cause all other publishers to glower greenly at the Publishers S. As one critic put it, the vogue of the book lies in the fact that Willkie decided to write it himself, instead of employing a "ghost" writer. Mr. Willkie writes easily; he has a journalist's eye for the significant details of a situation...
...eleven he was part of Gus Edwards' kid troupe; as an adolescent he teamed with Eddie Cantor, his lifelong friend and butt. A big laugh-getter in his early 20s, in his late 20s he proved an even bigger tear-jerker in The Jazz Singer. His biggest success since then came this season on Broadway in Show Time...