Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind to work harder. He had eight children. Every evening, coming home hungry, he tucked his napkin in his neck and filled his stomach with good food. His stein was always refilled several times. When he became fabulously rich a reporter asked him what was the secret of his success. George Ehret smiled vaguely and, with a big hand on the table, seemed to lose himself in memories. "Ja . . . ja. . . ." The reporter quoted him as saying "Good beer, good health." But George Ehret did not say that. Life was more than food and drink. In the evenings, perhaps, a game...
There is a strong likelihood that the two teams will meet before then in the national tourney, in which both are entered. The success of the British courtmen in New York since they landed last Saturday indicate that they will prove to be the most serious challengers for the national team title which the Crimson will be defending...
...Whatever of Strauss's "last works" were meant by Critic Riesmann, there is a very substantial achievement on record, the dates of success in which carry on steadily to the present. Strauss is distinguished in at least four fields of music. Though his early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir...
...Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny. His work was not great art. It was very interesting. Playwright...
...victories of A. H. Miller '27 in the 40-yard dash and of G. W. Smith '29 in the 600-yard handicap were the high spots of the Crimson success at the sixth annual indoor games of the Knights of Columbus in Mechanics Hall Saturday night...