Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week's elections the voting was unusually light and the newly elected members are, in most cases, candidates who fell short of success in the undergraduate poll. The full complement of the Council shows that 12 out of the 15 seats are held by members or managers of sports teams...
...Kentucky Derby. Also, he pondered this question: Should he take an eagerly-offered renomination from Tammany in the primary next September, and be faced with the certain prospect of four years more in New York's antique City Hall or should he, at the peak of his political success, step grandly out of Job No. 3 and cash in on what he calls his "commercial value...
...train which ran through Indiana. Louise, nee Kerlin, came to the station to meet her father who was a conductor on the same train. Conductor Kerlin was killed in a railroad wreck; Louise brought up her younger brothers and sisters. Dresser's songs had had some success and he helped her to a job in vaudeville, let her use his name. Later she sang with Weber & Fields, Raymond Hitchcock, William Collier; played parent roles in many pictures, notably Mother Knows Best...
...high glee at the success of their latest hoax. Editor Daudet reprinted all 28 letters to the Minister of Poldavia...
...could not be appeased until a considerable fine was imposed; but he paid the fine himself. Many a bold push was made to ascertain his age; yet, however suddenly the question came, or however craftily one crept from date to date, there was a uniform lack of success. "I see Allibone's Dictionary says you were born in 1805," a gentleman remarked. "Some statements have been nearer, and some have been farther from the truth...