Word: successful
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Light from the Past. In their different ways-the Prime Minister as though he were paying a duty to history, the President as though he were enjoying a feast of wisdom and success-Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt threw much light on the probable future of the war by explaining its immediate past. In all essentials their recitals to Parliament and to a Washington press conference tallied with each other. According to Churchill and Roosevelt...
...agreeable to the die-hards and Blimps who would love to indulge in reminiscences about India being easily controlled with the small finger of the left hand. . . . All the unrest we have is not of Congress' making. . . . The Government feel . . . that they are going to make a success of their job by a policy of double-distilled noncooperation from the British side...
...Success was heady. In the tonic atmosphere of the victories it was easy for many people to forget the problems that were still unsolved. But voices soon reminded the people that the war and the peace were still enormously problematical. From India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar answered a condescending harangue of Winston Churchill. From England the Archbishop of Canterbury raised his voice against privilege. And from China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a compelling message this week to the New York Herald Tribune's forum on world affairs. Wrote the Gissimo...
Died. Laura Hope Crews, 62, veteran character actress; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame...
...When our losses are admitted, it is long after they occur, and, whether by design or mere repeated coincidence, such losses are almost always made public coincident with the announcement of some current success, or at least optimistic prediction from Washington, thus softening the blow. . . . Such officials just don't understand Americans. We can take...