Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second test I have called the policy question. If an established concern has been selling over a period of years in a particular manner, or to a particular group of consumers: has sold successfully, and has employed salesmen who have enjoyed prosperity during their employment, the job, moos with the second test. If a concern has been marketing through the retail trade and suddenly decides that it is going after its prospects on a direct consumer basis the success of that venture is problematical. If a concern that is little known is trying to market, its products direct...
...first saw it in a little Russian cabaret just off the main thoroughfares of Paris," related Ada May in answer to the reporter's query concerning her dance's origin and its success. "A gypsy was singing the song, accompanied by three husky Russians. There, attracted by it, I persuaded one of the men to teach me the song and dance. I had meant to use it in a revue, but on account of my contract, I was unable to do so. When I entered Captain Jinks, I decided the time was ripe for its introduction, and here...
...first inter-continental tour was an entire success. The tour was conducted in January and February of this year and was arranged for 157 South African students. The itinerary included visits to a number of European countries with visits to Germany and Switzerland optional. The cost of the entire trip for each person, including the ocean trip from Cape Town and back, was slightly over...
...plays for several years. "This year they are going to try a revival, the widely known "Brown at Harvard," which created such a furor at the time of its first production, twenty years ago. This play, which was written by a Radcliffe graduate, Mrs. Ryder Young, enjoyed a successful run in New York and other cities for over a year. It was given at both Yale and Princeton with great success. Finally it came to Boston, where a special Harvard first night was arranged...
...remarkable success achieved by Austin Strong in this play may be equally attributed to the poignant mixture of humor and a little patnos in his characters of the Parisian underworld, and to a highly trained and sympathetic group of players. The part, circumstances, and events form an adequate, if not a completely convincing framework, and for the first two acts at least the action is dynamic. The problem, if one exists at all, is a bewildering combination of theology, various kinds of complexes including the inferiority type, and the power of suggestion. If taken seriously it is ineffectual...