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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luck. "As for luck, I do not think that it is much of a factor in the success of men. I should say that it much more depends upon being prepared to take advantage of luck when it comes along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Pines Re-echo | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Manhattan. They count on easy entree to the Hotel Statler now abuilding on Park Square, Boston. He conceals his affairs so little, that he often, without forethought has exposed to strangers confidential reports on which his associates have spent hours of labor. Yet he does not thereby endanger the success of his hotel business, for he has worked out a formula for building and operating hotels which no rival, no matter how well instructed, has been able to duplicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Innkeeping | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...thrown a few chips of bright dialog, but hardly enough to exalt his play above dangerous mediocrity. Rosalinde Fuller tosses about in the role of devastating Mary Denvers with a jerkiness that irritates in spite of her sincerity. Before visiting these shores, Scotch Mist hung over London with moderate success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Countess Maritza. Ever since The Student Prince, the Shuberts have been putting royalty to music with golden success. Although long awaited, the youngest in line, The Countess Maritza, disclosed nothing more sensational than a former Metropolitan prima donna of human dimensions. Indeed, shapely Yvonne D'Arle's skipping and gestures are more suggestive of the Shubert girl than the Gatti-Casazza stalwart. Had she injected less grand opera bravura into her lyric cadenzas, she might have proved even more effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...zeal for the making of laws has been matched by our lack of success in enforcing them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL FUND AMENTALISM IS REPUDIATED BY MUNRO | 10/1/1926 | See Source »

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