Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching of art history is discontinuous, ignoring the ground swell but making much of the wave-crests--schools, movements, isms, styles, which succeed one another much like the ducks in a shooting-gallery. To evolve a philosophy of art history which would give meaning to change and value to accomplishment, often requires that we study phenomena which are not, in the orthodox, artistic at all. How much simpler to build stone walls that make teaching easier though they make learning more difficult. Thus one avoids the charge of being an academic jack-of-all-trades, and remains the specialist behaving...
...five Seniors who, in the opinion of their professors, are most likely to succeed in Hollywood have been chosen for a final interview with a member of the M.G.M. staff later this spring. The reports are not confirmed by officers of the University...
...songs that tinkle across the sound track-In My Merry Oldsmobile, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Oh, You Beautiful Doll and a dozen others-are calculated to evoke an era when alligators lived only in swamps, or zoos. And they succeed so completely that when Vernon Castle's plane crashes at Fort Worth, even the inevitable closing shot, in which Irene tells the band to keep on playing, acquires dignity...
...chief clerk, vice-president, then executive vice-president, Edward Engel has helped three presidents run the Santa Fe. Last week, at 64, he was elected president to succeed old Samuel Taylor Bledsoe, who died five weeks ago. Friends who later stopped into the president's office to wish him well found nothing there but great baskets of flowers. Pacing up & down his cubbyhole next door, President Engel explained: "I can't work around these flowers. I'll move in when they wilt...
Last week 69-year-old Griffith Ellis sold his interest in the magazine he had edited so consistently for 40 years, went to Arizona for a vacation. Purchaser was his business manager, Elmer Presley Grierson, whom he had been schooling to succeed him since a few months after Grierson graduated from University of Michigan in 1913. Like his mentor, Publisher Grierson is devoted to boys, likes them redblooded. His son, John, is just...