Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financial troubles of the Forrester family, is finally thwarted when Aunt Louise and Uncle Tony move in with their out-of-work opera troupe. The troupe's star and manager (Michael Bartlett) decides to present an opera written by Tony for the amusement of Kentucky Derby crowds. Success depends upon getting Soprano Marian to lend her voice. She refuses. How the handsome manager-star finally wins her support in the lavish spectacle solves both her amatory and the family's financial troubles...
...Hutchins, Mississippi grower: "It is a greater success than I had expected. Now we won't have to beg for labor to help pick cotton...
...unshaven flyer was Harry Richman, 41, who has had a certain success singing torch songs while beating himself on the chest. Born Harry Reichman in Cincinnati, Crooner Richman went on the stage in 1907, rose to vaudeville prominence in 1921 as accompanist to Mae West. Same year he started as a radio performer, has since been a steady Broadway revue star, appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice...
...Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...
...recovered, but a defendant has no such refuge. The more examinations and applications to a court a plaintiff may make, the greater is the nuisance value." More to the point, thought Judge Finch, would be 'devaluating the costs recoverable by 'the defendant in the event of his success so that they will to some reasonable extent compensate [him] for the expense to which he has been put. . . . Let's help the defendant, not the plaintiff...