Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is naturally the time to be planning for the future. The party will soon place in nomination its candidate to succeed...
...those editors who have the trend of timely subjects under their scrutiny. To the average reader it must seem that the long-continued offering of praise and censure and criticism upon the altar of the post-war generation is drawing at last to a close. Companionate marriage may succeed student suicide as a material for headlines, but all such topics begin to have a hollow ring; and when, as in the present instance, they are ignored, and youth is discussed by a competent and seasoned observer, the result is no revelation, but only a personal and far from sensational reaction...
Elected. William Hartman Woodin, 54, to the presidency of the American Locomotive Co.; to succeed the late Frederick F. Fitzpatrick. He was the company's president for five months in 1926; has been its chairman since 1926; is also chairman of the American Car & Foundry Co.; is a director of General Motors Corporation and of the Federal Reserve Bank...
Dundee went to the big city. One could succeed more quickly and with less effort in the big city. Dreaming of swift wealth he joined with fakers. He was apprehended and sent to prison. All chance of success seemed to have vanished...
...truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity. Opera of any appreciable allegorical content are usually picked up and laid aside at random...