Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strikes" and "Mela-chrinos" and Philip Morris' "Marl-boroughs." Each sells 75 million to more than 100 million a day. To join this phalanx, not especially to disrupt it, Continental Tobacco recently dressed its new cigaret "Barking Dog" with the strong armor of advertising. So far "Barking Dogs" success is indeterminable. More recently United Cigar Stores and Schulte retail stores quietly began to sell "Three Castles," made in England of Virginia tobacco. If "Three Castles" gains U. S. favor, it may become the brand that United Cigar and Schulte have been seeking to promote as their specialty since they...
...this crowded march to sell cigarets Lorillard's have been successful with "Old Gold." The first of last July they were selling 2,000,000 a day. Last week they were selling 20,000,000 a day. But success has been costly. Lorillard's net income in 1925 was $5,641,431. Last year it was $4,117,197. This year it will probably be less. Advertising costs, although a trivial fraction of a cent for each cigaret sold, is altogether enormous. But continued success in selling "Old Gold" will far more than pay for advertising appropriations. Meanwhile...
Dundee went to the big city. One could succeed more quickly and with less effort in the big city. Dreaming of swift wealth he joined with fakers. He was apprehended and sent to prison. All chance of success seemed to have vanished...
Good Time Charley, after the fashion of the major portion of the season's spoken drama, features the play behind the scenes, the tear behind the smile. Warner Oland, as a woebegone clown, picks his way carefully and with success through the pathos that at times threatens to bog the story. In the supporting cast, Helene Costello supplies decoration, Montague Love villainy and Clyde Cook a fine performance in a minor role...
Dundee grew, and fell in love with Millie whose father worked in the factory. He loved Millie greatly; he would marry her some day. He would marry her after he had attained some measure of his magnificent success. For the stranger had said to him: "Go on, young fellow. You are doing fine. The good things in life are not very far off. Avoid those who stick in the mud and cultivate those who are going somewhere." There was plenty of time to marry Millie...