Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Years ago Nazimova scored an astonishing success in this part, and after her have come many lesser steps to tread in her footsteps, but when one sees it, one can't help wondering how "Hedda Gabler" could ever be a popular vehicle. In the first place it is far too long for the stiff-backed seats of a theatre, taking over four hours in presentation. Moreover the incidents are thin and the action slight. Thirdly one feels continually that Ibsen is speaking from the stage and not from life, for his characters have a stilted unnatural manner of expressing themselves...
...often does not mean to the student what it should: four years of preparation in life. "College is life," says the undergraduate; and in consequence, all the grim earnestness of life is not postponed until the real business of life is entered upon, but is seized at once. Success--the bright star of every ambitious man--already dazzles his eyes. Success he must have now. And since popular clamor is taken as the measure of success, it is no wonder a student is often misled to seek it in those paths which bring immediate recognition from his fellows...
Swelled with pride at his success thus far, Super-Tuchun Wu despatched a note to the Customs Conferees at Peking, suggesting that their assembly might well be postponed "until such time as a more representative Government functions in China." He meant, of course, "I'm going to gobble up China, Peking and all. Better wait until I do and negotiate with me." The Conferees, secure in their nine-powered might, ignored Wu for the present and opened their deliberations...
Last week the brothers Roosevelt (Theodore Jr. and Kermit) called down from "the roof tree of the world" that they had got what they clambered up for. Their cable from Turkestan began: "Have had good success with the Ovis poli [Marco Polo sheep]. Have excellent group of four rams, besides several other specimens for the Field Museum. Are going straight to Srinagar;" that is, starting home...
Those who consider that the main argument against the League of Nations is a reiteration of the often ill advised statement, that it is, after all, powerless to do any real good, will do well to remark the present success of the League in silencing the war threats and rifles of the Greeks and Bulgars. In the days before the League was thought of, the Balkan states were always the sore spot of Europe. Not only delighting in the tinsel of melodrama, they liked a bit of the shooting and sword play which goes with the tinsel. So every...