Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Success stories are always stimulating. Yet if the requirements of American politics make it necessary for a man to have only 25 dinners at home in three years . . . when he has three growing sons and a daughter, then we had better re-evaluate our ideas of success in the American scene...
...Acres of Flesh. As This Week was a supplement in such family journals as the New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...
...beginnings were hardly simple. He was the only child of a prosperous druggist, and the grandson and heir of coal and lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester (Mass.) Academy, where he got into trouble for writing off-color lyrics; Yale, where he got a B.A. and wrote...
Porter knew no real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear up a bone infection of his right leg), years of constant pain, and a tough-minded courage that surprised his friends and impressed his physician...
...members ... are relieved by Mr. Goldwyn's withdrawal. During his association with us, he has demonstrated a unique . . . flair for saying one thing and doing exactly the opposite. Mr. Goldwyn's fabulous . . . success ... is irrefutable proof that free enterprise [exists...