Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers have been asked to pick in advance the 24 teams which would emerge victorious from a list of 24 scheduled football games. The Court observed that the chances against success in making this guess were 282, 429, 536, 481 to one. Nonetheless several satisfied Britons have guessed right, during the past season, thus winning prizes...
Kenneth MacKenna is a young husband, out to make good in the financial world. To him and to Peggy Wood, his ambitious wife, an appointment to the German office of his firm symbolizes success second only to an appointment to the Shanghai branch. On the day before the appointment is to be announced he resigns his position, feeling that he is not to get the coveted appointment. Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers...
...customary for Yale to have a football rally and at this football rally it is customary for all Yale undergraduates to yell and cheer. This year, however, only 500 were gathered together in the name of Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears...
...secondly to his long and impeccable record as a revolutionary. At 14 he began to work intermittently in a cartridge factory at St. Petersburg, during the slack winter season on his father's farm, and was almost at once fired with the pure flame of Revolution. His success in interpreting citified Marxian doctrines to peasant friends at home was phenomenal. Soon enough, however, the Imperial Police transformed his life into a long, incessant struggle punctuated with arrests and finally with banishment to Tiflis and later Reval. Thus the President of Russia is of the honored Revolutionary Old Guard...
...First Trader winks appreciatively, slaps his thighs, it is a Knowing Joke. But if, new to his business, he smiles gratefully and proceeds to buy Alaska Juneau, it becomes a Practical Joke. In either case, it is a huge success...