Word: successful
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...Student Council continues today with more or less the same general purpose. Its duties and services are many. In the first place it guarantees the financial success of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances, the Red Book (the annual yearbook), etc. This year a fund has been set up for the use of the Freshmen at any time. This fund can be borrowed to start any project, the money to be returned later. Further, a donation is made of $300 to defray the expenses of the annual Freshman Smoker...
...giving it every protection." Fort Morgan and Sterling set the pattern for Governor Landon's rear-end appearances as his special carried him eastward. At State lines droves of local politicians got off and got on the Landon train, each with his message of good cheer and GOP success in November. If possible, at each stop Governor Landon tried to say something of folksy local interest. At Lexington, Neb., for instance, he recalled that he was in the hometown of Footballer "Swede" Berquist who used to knock holes in the Kansas line. Promptly Mr. Berquist surged forward...
Martin, a new baritone singing When Did You Leave Heaven; Menjou in a hospital nightshirt. " Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...
Last autumn she conceived the air-marking plan. Last week, as she received the first public acknowledgment of its success, she was too sad to appreciate it. Captain Omlie was killed fortnight ago as a passenger in the crash of the Chicago & Southern Air-Liner City of Memphis (TIME...
...Nostitzes escaped to Finland, were trapped again in the Ukraine, eventually got out by way of Constantinople. In Paris and New York Countess Nostitz ardently propagandized against the Bolsheviks, flinging "her entire energies into it, even at the risk of being unpopular." Despite her zeal, the only success she could record was that of persuading the late Senator Medill McCormick, who had "leanings towards 'giving the Bolsheviks a chance,' " not to visit Russia...