Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's Yakov Malik, who has himself repeatedly told U.N. to go jump into Lake Success, was mightily indignant at The Netherlands' defiance of the council's authority. His similes were not up to Andrei Vishinsky's high standards, but he did his best. Cried Malik: "The Dutch reply is a cynical request by an aggressor for two or three days more to kill off his victims completely . . . Do the U.S. and Britain intend, like Pontius Pilate, to wash their hands of the matter...
...council adjourned, to meet again at Lake Success this week. Some of its members boarded the Queen Mary at Cherbourg and promptly got stuck for twelve hours in a mudbank. That was a simile come to life-and a lot more accurate than the ones the diplomats thought...
Olivia DeHaviland's performance as the mentally sick girl is superb. Almost the entire credit for the success of the film must go to her acting. She shows the torments and confusion of the girl in the early symptoms of trouble, in the depths of her madness, and then when the signs of improvement and eventual recovery come. She handles the difficult job of reflecting mental states so well that the doctor does not have to say that she is improving...
...Biggest Zaret & Singer success was their modernization of Harvard Professor George Martin Lane's The Lone Fish Ball (1855) into 1945's hit One Meat Ball...
When the January issue appeared last week with new layouts and writers, the face-lifting operation looked like a success. The masthead flew two MacArthurs instead of one; mustached brother John D. MacArthur, president of Chicago's Bankers Life & Casualty Co., was the new publisher. Ince had sold out and gone off to Europe. "We didn't want anything with the MacArthur name on it to fail," explained John D. loyally. "My group-just some unpicturesque businessmen who want to make money-has put up $500,000 to make...