Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Almanack de Gotha, it heralded the establishment of the Floranada Club close to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. " . . . Background counts as much as money . . . society . . . has decided to have a new playground . . . impeccable social and financial powers" (TIME, Feb. 1). But such suggestions were not sufficient to make Floranada a financial success., Last week its backers, the American-British Improvement Corp. filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, claiming assets of $2,551,518.58, liabilities...
...points to the results as if they were causes, and deplores what cannot be remedied, while he emphasizes a standard which should not be employed. "You know," he says, "that 90 per cent of the young men being graduated today will never be heard from, as far as success is concerned...
...Andrus is a success, so much so that he can afford to be known as a straphanger. It is inevitable that he should hold up a standard. It is all he knows. But the situation which he deplores is bad pot, because of the evils which he decries, rather in spite of them. For, though most of the young men who are going out of colleges now will never be successes, most of them have that as their highest aims. They too want to be millionaires, though perhaps not millionaire straphangers from Yonkers...
...acceptance of the resignation will seem to many to be a rash step. The CRIMSON sees in it not a rash step, but a brave one. And it sees in it further that the step is proof positive of the success of the reorganized athletic bureau...
There are a great many delightful Babbitts who are working toward that poorer success which eventuates in a finer sense of values in the next generation. If the Kiwanis and the Mystic Shrine have a certain cheapness, the Mercury has cheapness of another kind. The difference is one of kind not of quality or quantity. So he who smiles at the advertisement which uses Mr. Babbitt as its motif must remember that really that gentleman is not much nearer cultural damnation than the readers of the jade journal of the eccentric reputation...