Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Albert of the Belgians abdicated last week as fiscal dictator of his country (TIME, July 26), a role which he has played so successfully that the Belgian franc is stabilized (TIME, Nov. 8), and a new momentary unit, the belga circulates. To signalize the definite success of his administration, King Albert's last act as "dictator," last week, was to cancel a sheaf of emergency taxes, notably the 10% tax on foreigners' hotel bills...
...many disputes in the medical profession, both pro and con, as to the real merits of this discovery. Should confirmation be made that Dr. Small has isolated and identified the specific cause of this disease and has prepared a serum for its cure, we shall then have achieved a success rivaling no less a discovery than that of insulin for the treatment of diabetes...
...Jordan (green finish with khaki top). Chevrolet had a-"Sport Cabriolet" which is a coupé of roadster type: an enclosed front compartment with a rumble seat in back. The Chevrolet line is now finished in grey and uses disc wheels. Chevrolet advertising spoke of "the most outstanding automotive success in recent years." For other cars, other merits were advertised...
...Bonnie is the usual musical comedy unusually well done. Its best features: the acting of Dorothy Burgess who strives seriously to smile success through this her first musical comedy role; an excellently trained chorus; the song " 'Cross the River from Queens." The plot: a Dry millionaire soap manufacturer, arrested in a night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor...
...presentation. Although widely known in its literary and dramatic aspects, it has never been sung in Boston. This great and colorful music drama of Florence in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent will be remembered as the vehicle in which John and Lionel Barrymore established an epoch-making success under the title "The Jest...