Word: successful
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Frank O. Lowden was born in Minnesota in 1861, and was educated in Iowa. In 1886 he moved to Chicago to study law. After he received his bar diploma, he practiced law in Chicago with signal success: His first dash into politics was a failure; he was defeated for the gubernatorial nomination in the Illinois State convention. Two years later he was elected to the House of Representatives and there he stayed...
...Mary was to have been sent to the Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind. A rare operation, performed a few days ago on her right eye by Dr. J. B. McMurray of the Washington Hospital staff, technically known as an optical iridectomy, was today pronounced a success...
Coincident with the reports of the success enjoyed by this enterprising faith, were reports of a book which has been written about its founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy. The name of the book is Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy; its author was Adam H. Dickey, who during the closing years of Mrs. Eddy's life, had been her private secretary...
Five Days in Boston, or Much Said and Little Done-that was the 58th annual convention of the National Education Association. But it was a success: the biggest attendance in N. E. A. history, 15,000. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh flew from Detroit and was mistaken for Mrs. Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts in one receiving line...
...play was first shown in London in 1924, enjoying a great success, and was then brought to New York to be smothered within a fortnight. Hereabouts it is known only as a printed play, the work of a poet, cut off in the prime of his youth, whose imagination was fantastic, realistic, and glamorous...