Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electric light, power, and gas companies, but should prove useful to men interested in investment and banking. Classes will be held three times a week, the first half year being designed to show the regulations and restrictions under which the industries operate, and the second half to illustrate the success of companies in working out their problems under these restrictions. No text book will be used, but instruction will be by class discussion of actual cases and problems. The decisions of courts and of utility commissions will be mainly used for case material during the first part of the course...
...gathering place of men, and men are not all heads. If education be understood in its true and literal sense, it means complete self-development. Each new student, while making sure that his academic requirements are being met, should early choose some outside activity that is open to him. Success in these activities is usually dependent upon competition. Enter the competition, get acquainted with the men in your class, and keep primed for study by participating in their activities...
...Phantom of the Opera- Universal made a brave attempt to duplicate the success of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with another picture of Lon Chaney and Paris. They built the imposing facade of the Paris Opera House and constructed on various sets a series of ingenious interiors and dungeons. They took their story from the novel of Gaston Leroux and depended on horror chiefly for their entertainment. Though Mr. Chaney wears a more grotesque make-up than ever, the film play seems only pretty good...
...hospitable roof, I cannot speak for my Government, but both as an American and as a Christian I do speak for millions of my fellow-citizens in wishing your great work, in which we believe, for which we pray, our absence from which we painfully regret, the eminent success which it deserves...
...Limited Mail. In the old days about all you had to do was wreck a train and they called it a successful movie. About all they do in The Limited Mail is wreck a train, and one would scarcely call it a success. It is about a tramp who caught hold of life in large chunks and made a man of himself and became the engineer of The Limited Mail. The Mail Clerk and he were both in love with the same girl. Accordingly it was fitting that the clerk be killed and the engineer saved from the wreck...