Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They say that any success I've had is just due to my personality. . . . It's always my personality...
Neither Theodore Roosevelt nor Kaiser Wilhelm II seemed to have much success in taming Dictator Castro. Also a series of British, French, and Dutch naval blockades of the Venezuelan coast, or parts of it, did not bring Dictator-President Cipriano Castro perceptibly to reason. He started out in 1900 by springing a successful coup d'etat, and grandiloquently announcing to the world that he proposed to unite Venezuela with Colombia and Ecuador in a league "against encroachment by Yankees or Europeans." Eight years later the catalog of his unparalleled audacities included: 1) repudiating Venezuelan bonded debts to European investors...
Artist Arno, no publicist, discourages the inquisitive by mingling truth with legend. "My art studies," he states, "have been principally pursued in dark alleys. ... I met with overnight success which ended the next morning. ... I have an oil painting in the Yale permanent collection, where no one will ever see it. ... At the age of three I was seduced by an old lady with a long grey beard...
...great deal of difference between the two sets of students. All the contrasts must be made by the narrowest of margins. The outstanding fact that out of this class of eight hundred three hundred were engaged in sports at one time or another is an indication of the success of Harvard's policy of "athletics...
...sick of wastin' evenings with the girls who count success...