Word: successful
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...word again as meaning a sailor, or if you believe in its use after reading the above that you do not send me any copy of your paper in which it is used. Feeling sure that you will see the justice of the foregoing, and wishing success to your paper without the use of any such offensive terms...
...special prologue for "The Patriarch" has been written by Lee Wilson Dodd, and during the summer the play itself was revised slightly according to suggestions made by the viewing committee at the trial performance. The success of Professor Baker's management at Yale will assure a capable company for the play. It has been called a difficult drama for amateur actors and the presentation will tax the skill of the Yale Thespians...
...Canton Revolutionary troops started their campaign against the North last July. They have not yet succeeded in their purpose. They may never succeed. But the Nationalist Government rules at present over a larger area than has any single military or political unit in recent years. The secret of its success is the enthusiastic support of the people...
...arts and one Benn W. Levy, advertised as a young Oxford graduate nursing his first play which proved a great success in London and is being tried on Boston as an acid test, bring in the cake. The confectionery is a veritable plum pudding, filled with excerpts from the works of all authorities on women beginning with Adam. Shopenhauer, and H.L.M., Bernard Shaw and Havelock Ellis, Freud and Elinor Glyn contribute each his plum...
Although whatever fame he has attained is due to the modern demand for tabulated materialism, Roger W. Babson statistical expert, does not hesitate to condemn the increasing prostitution of school and church by the mechanics of commercial success. "The educational institutions of the country have gone materially mad and our churches are equally guilty," is the dictum of the mathematical prophet. And by educational institutions he means both the elementary schools and the universities. "Our colleges are diploma factories for department stores, giving away anything wanted, irrespective of whether it makes for happiness or discontent." The old problem of serving...