Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armitage and friends were Roman Catholics. Mayor Duvall's defenders have accused Mr. Armitage's brother, James Duvall, a state witness, of perjury inspired by rancor against Klannish Mayor Duvall. Mayor Duvall's prosecutors ascribe the ill success of his corrupt practices to the fact that he was "trying to play both ends against the middle...
...Michigan. He has a daughter, aged 13, another, aged 10. He was only 18 when he went to work as a bank messenger, because he could find no other job. And it has taken him twenty-seven years to reach the highest banking job in the land. For that success he quotes a platitude: "Observation and hard work." Critics have been impressed with the quick, deliberate way he lights a cigaret and extinguishes the match, never requiring more than the absolutely necessary movements...
...living statesman, to indicate his character without becoming technically libelous. This difficulty Author Pringle has met rather than avoided. The man who heard Trinity Bells calling him to be four times Governor of New York was no Eastside toughy, as many have supposed; he owes much of his success to his archenemy, William Randolph Hearst; a Jewish woman is one of his most potent advisers...
...more a pleasure because it was unexpected. I really didn't intend to write for the CRIMSON this year. After my unprecedented success--I say this with modesty--last season; I was approached by many syndicates with attractive propositions. And I was surely tempted to dip my pen in an inkpot of gold--to use a rather neat figure of speech--and join the tabloid ranks as an expert writer. But the tabloid writers type with only one finger, while two Forecast digits rattle the keys, yea even three or four in moments of excitement, so I realized I should...
...present Manter Hall School was founded by W. W. Nolen '84 who, immediately on his graduation, embarked upon a career of tutoring college students. Dubbed "the Widow" by some facetious student, Nolen became the pillar of support to countless members of many college generations. His success was such that his followers increased yearly in numbers and soon he was compelled to assemble a corps of assistants. He moved into Little Hall and maintained his quarters there until the end of his life...