Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today Thomas Alva Edison, most illustrious product of the Horatio Alger academy of success, reaches his eightieth year. And with the festival come congratulatory telegrams by the basket full: flowers--and Henry Ford. Honor comes to whom honor is due. For Edison is one of those fortunate geniuses who has received fame while he is still able to enjoy it. On him--as on only too few--are showered flowers for the living...
...audience decides to renumerate Bob for his services, he earnestly requests, the Lampoon announced, that it should throw the money on the stage in envelopes, and not in loose coinage, as the player wants to save time collecting, and also does not wish to leave the proceeds of his success for his successors...
...attention to the athletic facilities of the student body in general. However, none of the appeals for a new gymnasium, for a swimming pool worthy of the name, for more tennis courts and playing fields, attracted the attention which has finally been forced upon the athletic authorities by the success of the new policy...
Honor Be Damned. Again, Willard Mack. In this, his fourth play of the season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if his client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon...
...Budget. The question is pertinent, however, whether, whether this lack of support does not spring in some measure from a lack of confidence both in the aims and in the achievements of the Student Friendship fund. The collection of the Budget this year has contributed notably to the ultimate success of the new plan, but in its expenditure there is an equally legitimate test of its merit, and contribution from the Budget to the Student Friendship fund should not be made without thorough investigation of its purposes and of its actual accomplishments...