Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helen Hayes, who is making such a success in J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows will take the play on tour and late next season play the same author's Quality Street...
General Nobile (still excited, in Pittsburgh): "It is so strange, I do not understand. All Ellsworth did was to give money for the flight. It was I, Nobile, who designed the Norge; it was I, Nobile, who commanded it; it was I, Nobile, who was responsible for its success. Without me the flight would have been impossible! . . . Lincoln Ellsworth was just a passenger. . . . He was a nice passenger, but that...
...Spitzbergen, but tried again in 1909, when his bag exploded. In 1910 he set off to float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn, charged with contempt of court for disregarding a summons in an action by one Andrew K. Reynolds of Washington, D. C., to collect $280, an alleged debt. Mr. Wellman was released only when Banker-Explorer H. Murray Jacoby of Manhattan...
...found another issue in "this Bureau of Maternal Hygiene"-an innovation by some precocious Texans who had been reading books. "It is supposed to teach Texas mothers how to have babies," bawled Jim, "in spite of the fact that the mothers of this state have made a success of having babies for over 100 years...
...their personal choice of the immortal dozen" writers casually alluded to by Kipling. Homer and Shakespeare were well spoken of by most of the 24; though Shakespeare escaped mention by Dutch savant-to-tiny-tots Van Loon. The entire vapidity, occupying over two full columns, failed of that success in puffing the Herald Tribune's book section achieved by Mrs. Ogden Reid, able wife of its publisher, at her persistent "literary teas" to authors, publishers, publicists...