Word: secret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview Painter Max was asked to state the secret of his success. Replied he with a twinkle: "Thrashings. In my youth my father thrashed me and later the critics. The best thing that ever happened to me was that I got so many hidings. Art must be the expression of personal experience...
...Dear Flo Ziegfeld: . . . What, my dear Flo, is your secret? . . . Thank you, my dear Flo Ziegfeld, for the musical comedy the town's been waiting for. . . ." -Robert Garland, in the Telegram...
...imaginative, alert, and determined clerk in a high class music store, falls in love with one who is heir to $20,000,000, Mary Brian, who, of course, does not object to him. She does the obvious, but her position in the social world does not long remain a secret. The ship of good fortune, sailing along with spinnakers set runs onto a hidden reef in the form of a pair of Shelby's fortune-hunting friends. Nothing, however, can possibly down our determined music salesman...
...after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget the next rent bill even in the midst of the feast, and the faintest savor of the mundane changes the Olympian ambrosia to a mess of porridge that is only a little more appetising...
...President of Argentina, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen (TIME, Oct. 22) is among the strongest and wisest of her potent Socialist statesmen. During his previous administration (1916-22) Dr. Irigoyen introduced the secret ballot, and as a progressive legislator he stands honorably to the fore. On the other hand he does not hesitate to disperse unruly mobs, whether laborite or communist, with ruthless rifle fire...