Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swaggering name that savors of success was flung like a jaunty cloak, last week, around a strange, anomalous, new Cabinet formed by the Socialist Hermann Muller...
...that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even 'Mad Mihai'! I have never called my grandson by any such names." Observers recalled that the "sinister efforts" of partisans of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol to discredit his son, King Mihai, achieved such success, last year, that several worried Rumanian aristocrats hurried for authentic information to one of the few men who was generally trusted and esteemed in intriguing, scandalmongering Bucharest-a man from Emporia, Kan., William Smith Culbertson, then Minister to Rumania, now Ambassador to Chile. The Rumanians knew that King Mihai...
...contestants, showing faces that were thinned and blackened with exhaustion, suggesting that the dance marathon was not only silly but cruel. At this, a vast throng of persons rushed to Madison Square Garden and bought their way in. The marathon which had hitherto been a financial failure bloomed into success. The dancers, whose ranks were by this time greatly reduced, became famous and excited; they whirled and shuffled happily, receiving donations from the audience...
...seventeen days served to enable Son & Heir Chang Hsueh-liang to consolidate his position with apparent success, so that last week he proclaimed himself War Lord at Mukden, Manchuria, and admitted that he had inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure...
...Kappers, got up to talk. He began immediately to use the names of mysterious and exotic sicknesses-African Sleeping Sickness and how it had been cured by Bayer, malaria injections and how they helped general paralysis (TIME, April 2. June 4). For several minutes Professor Kappers stressed the past success of quiet cures wrought in maniacs and melancholies by somnifen injections over a period of 14 days. Somnifen produces a hypnotic sleep in which there is loss of consciousness, but no relaxation of reflexes. The patient can therefore be roused to take nourishment, attend to physical needs, etc., dropping...