Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...producers of "Camille," now playing at the Metropolitan with Norman Talmadge in the main role, have indeed taken the bit into their tooth and the result so far is a run away. A second tragedy has been produced in Hollywood this year and it bids fair to be a success. So far no one but Emil Jannings had been intrusted with a movie tragedy in this country, and for a time it seemed that he would stand unchallenged in his field. In spite of many imperfections in the senario, the directing and the filming, one can do much worse than...
...Pierce. "Raw milk is one of the few positively known means by which the disease is spread. To prevent this spreading, pasteurization should be employed. As for checking and curing the disease, Massachusetts and Vermont officials, cooperating with the Harvard Commission, believe they are on the road to success in abating infantile paralysis by the use of a serum made from the blood of human beings who have had the disease and have survived...
Commander L. S. Stewart, of the Naval Science Department, declared that the cruise was a complete success, and that it will be repeated next year, with a foreign port, such as Hamilton, Bermuda, or Halifax, in view as a destination. A similar cruise was held on the west coast, where the cruiser Tennessee took students from western universities through a short period of practical application of the theory propounded through the year in the lecture rooms...
...movement by the so-called quality magazines to gain the attention of the culturally middle classes has been a growing success. It began quietly enough eighteen months ago when the editors of the Atlantic Monthly discovered that as long as they confined their letters of subscription solicitation to college graduates, their returns averaged only one subscription to one hundred letters. But when the butchers and bakers and candlestick makers were added to the mailing lists, the average jumped to twelve per hundred...
...market were being heavily sold, Baldwin Locomotive stock worked its way higher, closing with a net gain for the session of over nine points. This reflected marketwise the fact that the Fisher brothers of Detroit, onetime owners of Fisher Body Corp. lately incorporated into General Motors Corp., had waged successful battle for representation on the board of directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works, of whose common stock they own 120,000 shares, a controlling interest. Samuel Vauclain, President, opposed to the Fisher brothers, was prevailed upon to allow them two places on the board. The importance of their victory was. diminished...