Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congratulations on your success as an oilman," wired Harry Ford Sinclair to his only son and namesake one day last week. A sophomore at Dartmouth, just turned 21, Harry Ford Jr. cranked a pump one summer in a Long Island filling station near the Sinclair estate, spent his last vacation as a deckhand on a Sinclair tanker. But that was not what Oilman Sinclair referred to in his wire. Harry Jr. wanted to quit college, go to work, so last week as a surprise Mr. Sinclair had him elected a director, member of the executive and finance committees of Consolidated...
...design is perceived at once as a contributing factor to the success of the painting. Even in so simple a subject as a head and shoulders it proves to be ingenuously built. The head is set on a broad base of white, in the neck-cloth, which narrows down, like the pedestal in a bust, and is framed by the strong orange of the coat...
...distributed in the U. S. and England. Despite enthusiastic response from advertisers, who welcomed its display opportunities, the magazine was whittled down before publication to 11¼ by 14 in., to make it manageable on newsstands. The first issue represented an investment of about $100.000. Best augury for its success last week was news of two competitors. Stage advertised a July issue completely devoted to the Cinema. Forthcoming is another high-class cinemagazine, Cinema Preview, to be published in San Francisco...
...born with a nevus (strawberry-mark) all over her left cheek, and at 35 she is a recluse. Except for her blemish she is much better looking and more intelligent than her two older sisters, who have both married, though they are nasty creatures. They hate Rosamund for her success, are always borrowing money from her. Except for them, she has almost no truck with the outside world...
...type writing, fits himself to become her secretary. Rosamund, fired by his courage, buys a car, takes a house in London, shows herself in the world. In spite of the disparity in their ages, Clive's blind ness and Rosamund's birthmark, their marriage is a success. Author Deeping tactfully leaves them with the arrival of their first baby...