Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fast. Everyone dances: almost all of them competently, some well--at least one; Edward Allen, in a Buster West sort of tumble, superbly. At the rise of the curtain the play achieves a headlong velocity which it strives to keep up all evening for the most part with good success. This swift tempo is largely due to the chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about the stage with a joyful zest...
Final plans for the Harper's Intercollegiate Literary Contest for 1927 have just been announced. This is the second year of the contest, its success last year having led Harper's Magazine to repeat it, with certain modifications...
...squash records of the past three years reveal continued success on the part of the Crimson racquet wielders...
...single torch, to test the superstition that thus a maiden may catch a magical glimpse of her future husband. The torchlight falls upon the messenger. He, then, is the man. But the royal will is stern. So runs the plot of the opera. The music, more important to the success of the whole, is being composed by Joseph Deems Taylor...
...Brothers Karamazov. The first Guild play of the season, Juarez and Maximilian, failed. Then followed Ned McCobb's Daughter, Pygmalion, The Silver Cord, all successes. Now comes The Brothers Karamazov, in five long acts. It, too, seems destined for success...