Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madrid, General Primo de Rivera was felicitated at the War Ministry by 20,000 admirers, upon his success in capturing Ajdir. Said he: "The Spanish Army has now wiped out the debt to itself incurred in a former generation's unhappy Cuban War" [i. e., the Spanish-American struggle...
...play is not so popularly concocted as the plays of his countryman, Mr. Arlen. In fact it is concocted so rudely as to seem an amateur product. The plot follows an Armenian boy from the family massacre in the old country to Ellis Island, through honest poverty and ultimate success. Made in America is said to be a kind of reverent memorial by its author (M. H. Gulesian) to his own life and liberty in this the promised land. It is as sincere in purpose as it is unskilled in workmanship...
...vision and the genius of the first editor of the LADIES HOME JOURNAL that the unprecedented success of the magazine is primarily due. It was the purpose and the policy of making a magazine of authoritative service to the Womanhood of America...
...Independent, Casper Harvey supplies a study of "Who's Who in America" from the geographical point of view. Amid a maze of ratios and figures, the fundamental formula for success stands out vividly, "Be born in Vermont and move to Massachusetts". That this recipe worked in the case of President Coolidge, regardless of the man's nature, is a sure proof of its reliability. Somewhere in the rocky soil of the Green Mountain state lies the secret of prominence as yet unexploited by realtors. Judicious advertising among eugenic-minded people might cause an emigration to Vermont. Using the Independent...
Besides demonstrating plays of opponents of the first eleven, the second team plays a number of games with outside teams. To prepare the men for these contests is another task of the coaches. They have achieved success so far this season, as a fortnight ago the scrubs pinned defeat on St. John's Preparatory...