Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee was also formed to investigate the polo situation. It is felt that in view of the polo team's success last year and of the increasing interest in the game, recognition should be given the players and polo should be placed on a minor sport basis. The committee appointed to consider this question was composed of J. N. Watters '26, chairman, and C. G. T. Lundell...
half score or more years ago George S. Kaufman wrote a musical comedy with Marc Connelly and peddled it about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play...
...bank. Two wolves of the stage jump at him and drop away with the bankroll in their jaws. He becomes a partner in their play, Her Lesson; sees it fail miserably at the first performance in Syracuse; buys it in a fit of anger; and makes it a wild success on Broadway. Coincidental possibly, is this plot; life, particularly theatrical life, is not like that. No one knows it better than Mr. Kaufman...
...Entrants to New York University packed a Presbyterian Church to hear words from Elbert H. Gary, steel magnate and famed author of rules for a successful life. Business success was the burden of his message. Be agreeable, said he, approachable, popularize yourself and your business. "Adopt and apply the standards of propriety. . . . Honesty is best. . . . Abraham Lincoln. . . . Marshall Field. . . . J. Pierpont Morgan. . . . The average man likes to hear himself talk too much. It is well to let the other man talk half of the time...
...reached :he age of 36, and then the wanderlust came upon him, and he wished very dearly to convert the heathen in Frisia*. So he traveled there but was soon expelled by the King Radbod. Three years later the Pope (Gregory II) sent him to Germany converting, baptizing, success in Bavaria and Thuringia, but, hearing of King Radbod's death, he rushed back to Frisia. Three years after he returned to Thuringia and Hesse. He converted so many heathen chieftains and common people that the Pope summoned him to Rome and made him a bishop. Again he returned...