Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...size. Words are heeded only when there is strength behind them. It is the general opinion that the President's words were good, that his plan is a great one, but the execution of this plan will require something more than "moral strength." If we are to see its success and if we expect to have a voice in the reorganization of Europe, we must put ourselves in a position from which our voice will be heard before that reorganization begins. Universal training will put us in such a position. ROBERT T. BUSHNELL...
Johann Sigurjonsson owes his fame as one of the younger generation of Icelandic dramatists largely to this stern tragedy of the North, which has been received so favorably in England, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Sweden. The success of the play abroad and the strong recommendation of the Scandinavian-American Foundation has prompted the Workshop to take advantage of this opportunity to develop the more sombre and serious technique of the drama...
...recent speech, and the policies suggested therein. Anyone who is in any way in sympathy with his proposals and sees in a league of nations, or at least a common understanding among nations, a possible solution of the difficulties of the future, (something worth trying, even though its success cannot be mathematically demonstrated),--any such person should consider the adoption of universal military service in its light. President Wilson proposes essentially that the United States be ready to join with the other nations in guaranteeing, among other things, that the world at large be secured against aggression. The question...
...Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were nowhere received as enthusiastically as in the United States...
...beauty of the music at times haunting and again vigorously inspiring, the success of the actors in creating the lively spirit of the book: the effective settings; the occasional bits of real and homely Irish humor; and the excellence of the singing voices combine to make "Eileen" so delightfully worth-while that a comparison of it with one of the popular musical comedies is quite as ridiculous as a comparison of the compositions of MacDowell and Berlin...