Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French success was less a battle than a maneuver. There are in the neighborhood of 100,000 French troops now in Morocco, of which 20,000 or 25,000 took part in the action. Their overweening numbers made resistance futile. Consequently they had few losses. Two flanking movements starting from opposite ends of a 45-kilometer front induced the Riffians to flee, leaving the Tsoul tribe alone to oppose the French. The Tsouls went over to the Riffs when the French retreated in July. Last week with the situation reversed they "turned faithful" again and came in asking mercy...
...some quarters it is believed that their withdrawal from Morocco will ease the situation and make French and Spanish success easier. It was even hinted that the Mannesmanns had been in some way connected with the mysterious support of Abd-el-Krim with money and arms. Indian and Egyptian Moslems are supposed to have contributed and there was one report that a submarine of unknown nationality delivered 28,000,000 pesetas to Abd-el-Krim...
...little town of Ptombiers a monument is to be erected in memory of Robert Fulton. It was there in 1802 that he experimented on the Augronne River with a miniature steamboat, tried without success to interest Josephine and the Great Buonaparte in his invention...
...Manhattan public school. Some of his waggish friends commented upon the strangeness of his popularity, for he was known to be an inveterate blower of his own trumpet. But it was his skill upon this trumpet, the cornet, that was responsible for his popularity, for his later success...
...tall, blond young man who looks very much as if he posed for those selling-talk advertisements: "Are you a success?" A certain energy of photographic personality has made him a star. It is apparently the plan of his employers to make him a humorous asset to their fortunes. In I'll Show You the Town he was funny. In Where Was I? he is bent on disproving that he married a certain lady in Washington, Dec. 9, 1923. He-or rather it-is not so funny...