Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This changed opinion of Alcott reveals a new view of old New England life. One popular biographical sport of the 1920s consisted of picturing Hawthorne, Emerson and their fellows as frustrated Puritans or insipid moralists. But Alcott was so indifferent to worldly success, so unintimidated by misfortune and so generally frank and good-natured that he corrects that exaggerated picture of the inhibited Yankee...
...only music where he lived. There, in the midst of good jazz which, as Miss Baker says, 'comes right out of genuine urge and doesn't come for money," the boy lived and breathed swing and gradually developed into one of the finest trumpeters in the country. Success and money came rapidly but they could not stop Rick, he couldn't stop; he kept on playing-pushing himself beyond the limits of human endurance. His death was inevitable...
...tribute to the smooth functioning of the University's administration that the Harvard Forest at Petersham, typical of the little-known parts of Harvard, has been placed before the public eye as a result of the recent hurricane, and has stood the test of public opinion with success. Both the fact that the University maintains the oldest experimental forest tract in America, and the fact that men like Ward Shepard '10 comprise its staff, cannot help but bring forth creditable comment from the public...
Watching with envy the success of the kitchen workers union and believing that the rest of Harvard's service employees were an easy market for unionizing, local 30 of the A. F. of L., led by international representative Robert H. Everitt announced a drive to sign up maids, janitors and maintenance...
...Visitors' Day" Big Success...