Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine, who in a great number of carefully controlled laboratory tests has apparently demonstrated that ordinary people can learn to "read" an unseen pack of cards much better than could be explained by chance (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934). In this endeavor Mr. Price reported no success...
...tirelessly pursued by a stodgy suitor from her home town. The sympathy with which she receives his proposals of marriage is discouraged by the manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When the home-town suitor reappears, Muriel Flood greets him with great enthusiasm, but by this time he has a wife...
...articles, big pages, colorful men's fashion drawings, found instant favor with a large and admiring public. Its second issue appeared on a monthly basis. Last month Esquire reached a circulation peak, sent some 440,000 copies to readers throughout the land. Last week this big, slick publishing success branched out with a speculative journalistic sideline. The trade was informed, through the medium of a full-page advertisement in Editor & Publisher, that "The Magazine for Men" was entering the newspaper syndicate business...
...lover. From each 25? fee collected, Mrs. McLaughlin gets a portion. Questioners are also incipient customers for stores selling hats sold by Irene Castle, Inc. A ringing silver flood of 1,000 quarters a day last week indicated that Mrs. McLaughlin's latest professional venture was a big success...
...away. When she came back, he had taken it.) She jolted dreamy Professor Paul Ward out of his many irresponsibilities, until he soon became dean of his department. She got the Ward's rent reduced, enlivened their home life, nursed their children, corrected their weaknesses and, after their success, prevented infidelity on the part of the parents and selfishness on the part of the children that constituted the main hazard of their triumph...