Word: successful
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Supporting Keahy in the leading feminine roles will be Miss Jaqueline Proctor, Eraskine '42, who recently played the lead in Eraskine's production "Stage Door", and Miss Edith Brouson Radcliffe '45, star of Radcliffe's recent success, "Ladies in Retirement...
...even give him time to shave. They hustled him off to New Haven, charged him with sedition. In a Silver Shirt magazine, The Galilean, two months after Pearl Harbor, Pelley had written: "The typical American . . . gloats when any of the Axis powers reports success abroad-even against our own forces." Pinched, he pouted: "There hasn't been a damn thing in the magazine that Boake Carter, 'Ironpants' Johnson, Father Coughlin and many others haven't also said...
Rubens lived in an age when it was possible for an extravert to be a great painter, and for a great painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models...
...both cases he neglects with no more than a passing scoff the maxim that an attack cannot be made with a reasonable hope of success unless a number of calculable and near-calculable military factors weigh on the side of the attacker. He cites his favorite General, Foch, who sent a marvelous message to the bumbling "Papa" Joffre before the First Battle of the Marne stating that his center, his right, and his left were in terrible shape, that the situation was excellent, and that he was attacking. He forgets, it would appear, that the situation was excellent only because...
Next to steam (which old wind jamming navy men welcomed like a mouse in the morning oatmeal) the biggest thing that has happened to fighting-ship design is the airplane. Before the epochal crippling of the Bismarck by aerial torpedo, and the crashing success of unsupported aircraft in sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, designers of battlewagons and smaller craft had given only half an eye to defense against the new weapon on the seas. Those demonstrations ended all arguments, basically altered ship design...