Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this instance the haze has not been dissipated alone by the whispered name of the Theatre Guild. Such disinfecting quality as the name might once have possessed has been balanced by hard-headed business methods, which have made the Theatre Guild of New York succeed where other artistically minded organizations have failed. And the flutter of disapproval, though less pronounced than that which greeted "The Birth of a Nation" in Boston and "All God's Chillun Got Wings" in New York, piques attention in Cambridge even outside the Liberal Club...
Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
...more representative radical among modern U. S. artists than John Sloan. In 1907, before the advent of cubism and futurism, he was listed among the "original 8,"* revolutionist painters who were contrasted with the conservatives' "original 10." In 1918, he was elected president of the Independent Artists, to succeed William J. Glackens, and has since modestly declared that he is still president only because he has been "unable...
Edwin B. Parker of Texas, to succeed himself on the Mixed Claims Commission...
...Loree's opponents succeed in crowding him out of the Eastern trunk-line field the following mergers will in all probability become effective as long planned...