Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who, in times past, have lived and fought for freedom, and seem to have grown too weary to carry on the fight. They have sold their heritage of freedom for the illusion of a living. They have yielded their democracy. I believe in my heart that only our success can stir their ancient hope. They begin to know that here in America we are waging a great war. It is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization. It is a war for the survival of democracy. . . . "I accept the commission you have tendered...
Rich Long Islanders became jittery as the "summer phantom," a daring jewel robber who has baffled police for two years, renewed operations with his usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley...
Many an observer who recalled that Kagawa visited the U. S. in 1931 without causing inordinate excitement credited much of the success of his latest tour to his sponsors, mostly liberal evangelical churchmen, who did able advance work in stirring up church interest wherever the little yellow man was booked. Before Kagawa had traveled very far, many people heard that his messages, mostly about "the love principle of Christ," were almost incomprehensible, delivered with a squeaky voice in a heavy Japanese accent. Nevertheless, out of sheer curiosity many a citizen obtained a free ticket...
...Wilson's Bunker Bean another introvert so thoroughly frustrated that his past neglect by picturemakers seems inexplicable. Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume recommended in a magazine suspiciously resembling Esquire and defined as an "English shooting suit." He spends a weekend...
...husband got mixed up with the Klan and was killed. Rhett Butler saved the other members, including the courtly Ashley, from hanging. Thereupon Scarlett married Rhett to share his fortune and to learn the secrets of his ruthlessness and success. But Rhett had made the full circle, come to despise money-grubbing even more than he had hated the exaggerated chivalry of the Old South. He put all his hopes in their daughter, was heartbroken at her death, developed a queer, tormented love and hatred for Scarlett. When Scarlett could finally get Ashley she found she did not want...