Word: prospers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since we all speak the same language [sic] and belong to the same race, we should live and prosper together. Why should we slaughter each other...
Count Charles was attacked in the Chamber because his Minister of Interior, Vicomte Prosper Poullet, had certified the election returns from small Hastiere near Namur. "In that election," shouted an Opposition Deputy, "there were gross irregularities. Shame on Poullet! Shame...
...first serious attempt. The organization, still in its swaddling clothes, proved itself a child prodigy. In January, 1909, the Harvard Monthly records that "people who came curious or indifferent, went away impressed and thoughtful. The Club has made a remarkable beginning in its chosen work . . . it cannot but prosper." The fears of whether the play would be too serious or too specialized were unwarranted. Directed by Professor Baker, assisted by Radcliffe girls, and with a specially written overture by Philip G. Clapp, played by the Pierian Sodality, "The Promised Land," far from making a bad start, gave promise...
...ensuing years proved that the Harvard Monthly had hit the right note in saying that H. D. C. could not but prosper. After two sad years of inactivity, due to the war, the club resumed its work in 1919, but the old order had changed. The club now took for its policy the production of plays by notable foreign and American authors, not previously produced in America. The Dramatic Club, of this time, along with the rest of the country, was enjoying the healthy post-war prosperity. One of the peaks of this period was reached in the New York...
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, famed critic, was deeply distressed by George Sand's lack of a lover. To her he sent Prosper Merimee. After a week George Sand sent him back. Anxious to please, Sainte-Beuve replaced Merimee with Alfred de Musset, who was to prove, except for one divertisement, eminently satisfactory...