Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publishing firm. A really wonderful product. Editor 60 years old would like to groom successor. Stands the closest, scrutiny. Takes a lot of money but looks worth it. $25,000 to $50,000 needed. (That may be a lot of money...
...Including sometimes-sensible Critic George Bernard Shaw, who hailed Puccini as the successor of the great Giuseppe Verdi, when Puccini's Manon Lescaut was given its first London performance...
...directs the activities of the church, answers hard questions on church law, handles all documents, acts as a one-man committee on Assembly arrangements and the credentials of delegates. Last week, with Stated Clerk Mudge about to retire at 70, the 150th Assembly, in Philadelphia, prepared to elect his successor. Obvious choice was a big-jawed, heavy-set Presbyterian who had worked in the "Vatican" since 1903-Rev. Dr. William Barrow Pugh, 49, of Chester, Pa., nephew of Stated Clerk Roberts and assistant since 1922 of Stated Clerk Mudge...
Last December one member of the Goncourt Academy died, and the remaining nine, most of them well above 70, disagreed about his successor. Candidates included Humorist Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing...
Creator of "The Saint," 31-year-old British Author Leslie Charteris, considered by many the successor to the late Edgar Wallace, has been turning out crime fiction by the yard for the last decade, is credited with 1,000,000 readers. In cinema, despite neat melodramatic treatment, his pulpy improbabilities need glossing over, his lithograph Saint a retouching...