Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since I left office, I have worked hard as a journalist to earn my livelihood ? I am pleased to say with some success. My articles have appeared in almost every great country in the world and my emoluments from this source during these four years have been much greater than the aggregate of my salaries during seventeen years of office. This statement would have been an unwarrantable boast on my part had it not been rendered necessary by the cowardly slander privately circulated as to my use of party funds...
...Story: Certain Manhattan dry-goods stores have copied the notion, originated by Frenchmen, of colored bedclothes. They are a success. Distinctions of taste have crept into the choice of bed-linen. For small babies, pink or tea-colored sheets are recommended. For men of fashion, blue sheets are most suitable. Red-haired brides may have scarlet or green linen laid upon their couches. For oldsters a black sheet is in the best taste. Now, at Wm. Coulson & Sons, Jas. McCutcheon & Co., Mosse Inc. (in Manhattan), those who so desire may buy sheets in pastel shades as well as more solid...
...Java he served the rich Van Ressler long and faithfully. Van Ressler was grateful. He rewarded Dundee by giving him a generous portion of his rubber plantation. The trees were young but would be ready to tap in a year or so. Success was at hand...
...most unlikely plot for his novel and accomplished a truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity. Opera of any appreciable allegorical content...
Utilization of the Reading Period in the Department of Physics will be much in the nature of an experiment, upon whose success or failure will depend its future application in this field, according to F. A. Saunders, Professor of Physics and chairman of the department. For this trial two half courses, Physics I and Physics 14 have been selected; the first course covers modern developments in Physics and includes only occasional laboratory work, the other treats Acoustics, with its application to Music and to Architecture and devotes considerable time to laboratory work. Decision has not yet been made...