Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell your readers that I have succeeded neither in the world of affairs nor in the literary line. It is not for you to judge my success, and I shall not argue the question with you. I will merely say that I would rather make a try at justice among men and fail in the try than to make the most resounding commercial success out of turning the sorrows and failures of mankind into clever mockery...
Thirteen billion dollars added to the public debt. Eleven million unemployed left on base." Noticeably elated by the success of his Chicago oratory, Nominee Landon appeared in Cincinnati next morning to furnish more proof of his growing self-confidence. At the station to meet him was his favorite Cincinnatian and prized adviser, bright young Charles P. Taft II, leader in the city's Charter reform movement (TIME, Aug. 3). After shaking hands with other welcomers, Alf Landon turned to Charlie Taft, checked with him to be sure of the name "Charter," started toward a radio microphone...
...railroad sales technique. It is traditional for small boys to want to be locomotive engineers. U. S. railroads have lately discovered that many an adult male has never outgrown that ambition. Result in the past three months has been an epidemic of "Off the Beaten Path" railway tours whose success has been as immediate and as surprising to railroad men as was the popularity of the first snow train...
Recently as rare as the redskin, the noble prostitute was once a cinema favorite. Carrie Snyder, as impersonated with enormous gusto and skill by Actress Gladys George, famed for her Broadway success in Personal Appearance, rates with the noblest of them all. If intelligence counts, Carrie is better than Madelon Claudet, who sank to scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles...
...world-beating account of themselves in their 27-16 victory against Columbia. Nor were their lower drives too formidable. The victory was essentially a Meyer pass product. All this week, Harlow has con- centrated on stopping the Meyer missives, and the Crimson star hangs largely on the success of these efforts...