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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of the past week a sirocco (hot, dry, enervating east wind) swept the battlefront where French and Riffians fight for supremacy in the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.). Fighting slackened and what was done ended in success for the Riffians, proving that the French successes of the previous week had in no sense discouraged or reduced the resistance of their enemies. A number of tribal desertions to the Riffians was also reported. Marshal Petain, his face bronzed by the African sun, landed at Ceuta, en route to Paris from the front (TIME, Aug. 3) conversed long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Moroccan War: Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...Beach's story of that name, was an opera star before her baby's birth withered her voice. By the time he has grown up, she is keeping geese and drinking gin in a smelly old shack. She hates him for her obscurity, impedes his business success and tries to muddle his marriage. Then he is charged with murder and at the last moment mother love conquers all. Louise Dresser gives an exceptionally good performance in another one you will probably like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 10, 1925 | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

Herewith detailed are some plays for the coming season. It is obviously impossible to present an exhaustive schedule. There is nothing so severely unimportant as an unimportant play. This list includes those which seem in the lottery to have the highest probabilities of success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Theatre: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

Cradle Snatchers is a play in which Mary Boland will attempt to repeat the success of Meet the Wife. Assisting her, Edna May Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Theatre: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

Guess, and guess right if you can, what newspaper in the U. S. carries the most advertising. A paper without advertising may be an editorial success, but a paper with many pages, of advertising is a great financial success; for advertising is the golden reward of successful journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: True Greatness | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

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