Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first success was in the Seven Days' battle. He stopped McClellan's advance at Mechanicsville, then cut Federal communication with the White House by cleverly passing his troops around to "Stonewall" Jackson's aid. Again the Union forces advanced, now under Pope. The bold strategy of ordering Jackson around Pope's wing to descend on his rear, and the lucky swelling of the Rappahannock River, combined to crush the invaders...
Interviewed, Henry Ford said: "I want the English in their homes. I think Britain still has to learn that the secret of industrial success is to do a better job and do it with machinery and do it more cheaply. Machinery will win every time. ... I shall certainly make some business inquiries. I have long thought that England was the best place from which to serve world trade [in automobiles], but the imposition of tariffs and other obstacles have made it difficult for me to put my opinions to the test, so really I am over here to find...
Friends clipped the reviews, carried them to a nursing home where lay Dramatist Moore, and piled the printed praise upon his lap. Dazed at first, he murmured, "My cup of bliss is full." Later the intoxication of success caused his Irish spirits to mount until he not only boasted of becoming "an idol of the English public" but added blatantly...
Having vented this spleen George Moore lapsed back into his easy chair, grew pensive, and finally reconsidered. Said he, as the intoxication of his play's success wore off, "Of course what I said did not apply to admittedly outstanding writers of today . . . Kipling for instance...
...amazement. "Why, that Summers boy! Do you mean to tell me-you mean to say that young-I always thought he was a-." On their lips they checked the word "loafer" sometimes applied to Henry Summers, who in St. Louis was often seen dallying in an alley. But success in an alley deserved no opprobrium. Henry Summers had won the singles championship of the American Bowling Congress...