Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with the new "House" plan idea at Harvard College, it is of interest to note how a similar arrangement has been put into effect at Vanderbilt Hall, the new Medical School dormitory, with considerable success...
...Joseph Pulitzer, vivid genius of latter-day U. S. journalism. He insisted that a newspaper must be not only a compendium of affairs but also a champion of ideals; and it was that theory which made his Post-Dispatch, founded 50 years ago in St. Louis, an astonishing success...
Whether it will do so or not, no one can say. The success of the new organization depends largely on the past and future prowess of C. Francis Jenkins, who invented "the first practical motion picture projector," and whose laboratories have recently been devoted to televisionary experiments. The announcement of the new capitalization came at a time when Wall Street was talking of nothing but the break in the market and made therefore less stir in financial circles than it would have a week before...
...Dresden Opera Tini Rossler served her apprenticeship with promise of success. But then she married Ernst Heink and a burden of debts, lost her job. Then came four children, dark days. Heink deserted her. The sheriff took everything but a bed, three chairs, a stove, the children. Finally they had to be sent to her parents. Then came engagements in Berlin, Hamburg. A temperamental contralto balked and Heink got big roles, made them bigger. She married Paul Schumann, an actor. Together in 1898 they came to the U. S. In Chicago a month before another baby, she made her debut...
...never imitates, and if her real hope of success is only a fluttering bird of passage, that plumed creature is sure to be faultlessly preened and exquisitely feathered...