Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian living in New York I got a big kick out of your timely appreciation of Conductor Wilfred Pelletier's success with Soprano Jeritza in "Carmen" in Philadelphia. As a TIMEkeeper, I am loyal enough to be puffed up that TIME is the first newspaper to give Canadian Pelletier the praise he has long deserved. . . . He began his musical career by playing in a small movie house in Montreal...
Though these were wild words, it is true that Mr. Lloyd George owed much of his early success to the guiding hand and persuasive tongue of the Great Man whom he supplanted as Prime Minister...
...success of the Spring grain sowing campaign will determine the progress and tempo of our whole economic structure for the next two years...
...order to secure such honors, dog-fanciers, like the owners of racing stables, will sometimes descend to low and disgraceful practices. For example, Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, highly successful exhibitor of collies, aroused the professional jealousy of, it is surmised, an unscrupulous competitor. This competitor was aware that Mrs. Ilch was afflicted with a weak heart, that she had two sons who go to college. Accordingly, when she was on the point of leading her first entry into the ring, the competitor sent Mrs. Florence Ilch a telegram which read as follows: "Hurry to New Haven immediately, son, James, killed...
...good-by to her best beloved. He will go to the South Seas, find some pearls, sell them and use the money to launch her as an actress. Soon after the departure of her inamorata, the lady herself makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both...