Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this passionate devotion for meticulous ceremony Biographer Forester attributes Louis le Grand's two great failures. Excellently planned, the military campaign against William of Orange, and the diplomatic war for the Spanish succession, were both on the verge of sensational success, when Louis stopped to evolve an elaborate finish, instead of clinching matters offhand...
...Harry (Clive Brook) to kill the man in the bedroom and have nothing more to do with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both he and his wife are killed in an absurd climax...
...middle-aged Pan with monkey glands-such was the hazy impression, if any, of Havelock Ellis, until his Dance of Life expounded to thoughtful English and U. S. youth a philosophy of love and joy founded upon sound medico-psychological principles. The present biography condones the popular success of Dance of Life since that work displays neither the gamut of Ellis' scientific knowledge nor the depth of his philosophy of beauty as reflected in his Affirmations, Sex in Relation to Society, Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy...
...last act exhibits further highlights in the sky pilot's hypocritical career. He is the Rev. Dr. Elmer Gantry now, but no less eager to share a bed of shame. At the end, there is no lessening of his success nor any change of tactics. He is seen spewing, before an unseen congregation, a prayer that "we may make this a moral nation...
...seventh edition of his Vanities, lewd, nude, lusty revue. Last week it had its premiere; inaccurate cries of "Author!" brought Perjurer-Producer Carroll to the stage. Broadwayfarers howled obsequious approval, others beat their hands, a few figuratively beat their breasts. Carroll, producer, had produced; his show was a success...