Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haakon: "Gratified at the news of the safe arrival of Captain Amundsen and his associates in Alaska, I desire to offer to Your Majesty and people of Norway my congratulations on the success which attended the bold undertaking of this hardy and intrepid descendant of the Vikings. It is a matter of great satisfaction that one of my countrymen should have been associated with him in this daring and courageous exploit...
...much touched with your telegram on account of Captain Roald Amundsen's successful flight. I thank you and likewise congratulate you and the American people on the courageous flight success of Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd. Without the aid of Lincoln Ellsworth, Captain Amundsen would have been unable to carry through his plan...
...shock its readers, the New Yorker (a little magazine but a considerable financial success, published by the sophisticates of the metropolis for their would-be-sophisticate fellow townsfolk)last week published an article titled "The First Lady" purporting to be an intimate portrait of Mrs. Coolidge, by one Paul A. Burns. Carefully skirting the shoals of libel, his thesis ended very neatly in the port of Lese Majest...
...down upon the spectators' sensibilities and became oppressive. Accordingly, The Great Temptations stood forth as an exceptionally dull revue. It is not impossible that the producers may hurriedly purchase jokes and humorists in abundance and lighten up their handiwork. In such a case the show should be an enviable success; at present it is a lazy heavyweight. Miller and Lyles, colored comics, obliged with a few jokes. Hazel Dawn, one-time famed "Pink Lady," was the prettiest principal. But in a time of red-hot temptations, hers are mauve...
Silence (H. B. Warner). It has long been a mystery why H. B. Warner was not gobbled by the movies. This onetime Alias Jimmy Valentine is one of the best of legitimate actors. He has played films before but never with conspicuous success. The pictures have not been up to his acting. So great a success has he made in this one that he will be lost to the stage for the next three years, on contract in California...