Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Artistically a success, the show flopped at the box office, sold only $5,328 worth of art in three weeks. Woebegone were British artists, three-fourths of whom have earned nothing since the war began. Irrepressible George Bernard Shaw advised selling the pictures for "two pounds plain and five pounds colored...
...beginning of the record, a tuning note and metronome boat are included to make things easier. At present, the only things available are for string quartet in the various parts but if the experiment is a success, the company intends to put out albums suitable for other instruments, even for amateur swingmen on "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Body and Soul...
...answer to his Christmas appeal for parallel efforts for peace (TIME, Jan. 1). The Pope also wrote that hopes for peace were not bright, that "we are fully aware of how stubborn the obstacles are that stand in the way . . . and of the consequent slight probability of immediate success so long as the present state of the opposing forces remains essentially unchanged...
...rival imperialisms' can spring only from ignorance or moral confusion. The basic distinction between civilizations in which justice and freedom are still realities and those in which they have been displaced by ruthless tyranny cannot be ignored. ... To suggest that nothing of consequence is at stake in the success of Japanese, German and Russian designs on China, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and the Baltic States, or in the successful resistance of these latter nations, is to be guilty of moral irresponsibility...
...Success of "Destry Rides Again" is all the more remarkable when one considers that its thesis is the superiority of peaceful methods over violence. Into a wide open town, with its typical saloon characters, comes James Stewart, or Thomas Jefferson Destry, whose father was killed in the course of sherifling a similar frontier town. He believes in law and order, but not in coercion: and "no-gun Destry," as the hombres come to call him, talks the crooks into prison and the town into somnolence. His adventures, except for a few moments of sentimental seriousness, constitute a picture which must...