Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will succeed him ? Perhaps he himself, for some insisted last week that he might accept Republican nomination against his will. But barring him as a Republican possibility in 1928, most commentators were left to exclaim with U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson: "I am astounded. The Republican race will be a free...
...funeral of King Ferdinand, the dead monarch's robe was suddenly flirted by the wind in such a way that part of it covered the head of Prince Nicholas, while he was assisting the pallbearers. This "sign," said many superstitious Rumanians, indicates that Prince Nicholas will some day succeed his father as King. He would do so automatically should five-year-old Michael...
Meanwhile there arrived at Managua Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, U. S. N., to succeed Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer as commander of the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. Immediately upon landing, Rear Admiral Sellers was informed by Brigadier General Feland that numerous detachments of U. S. marines were maneuvering with intent to surround and subdue the forces of General Sandino...
...decorate profusely and illuminate if possible their residences and places of business. . . and to leave them so decorated and illuminated so long as these festivals shall last.... I further request them to insure by their presence in large numbers the success of the varied and imposing demonstrations which will succeed one another during these few days, and to do their utmost to make the celebration of this memorable anniversary a magnificent...
...have no attained true eminence; Group three might be said to hold the Average Man, not good, not bad; Group four is made up largely of the "unfortunates," who through ill health, lack of means, or absence of a normal endowment of native ability rather than the will to succeed, have prevented them shaping their careers satisfactorily; and Group five is reserved for "misfits", actual failures, and "undesirables...