Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tied to Governor Landon only by their mutual self-interest. To his admirers he is a fine fellow, unquestionably loyal, in spite of a hard-shell political past; to Governor Landon and Liberalism, a bright new blade of energy and vigor who will lead his Party to far better success than all the butter-knife minds who for a decade have been running the Republican show...
...presumptive skulduggery to be elucidated last week is the reputed presence in Portugal of Nazi insurrectionists from Germany. In the opinion of Portuguese secret police, these Nazis are deliberately seeking to upset the regime of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, who for seven years has run Portugal with such success as to give it one of the best records of any country during Depression. Given the fall of the Salazar regime, the way would be open to satisfy Adolf Hitler's land hunger by the passing into German hands, through purchase or otherwise, of Portuguese colonial territory in Africa...
...watermen agreed that, with water-borne disease under control, chief remaining problem is to eliminate taste. Success was reported by adding charcoal...
...fell to Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, Manhattan sculptor famed for her medal designs, when her model won in a limited competition for a $100,000 Baltimore bronze of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. Still groggy from a sinus operation, Mrs. Fraser was cheered by her success, knew she had a good two years' work ahead...
...early years of the 19th Century, when England was ruled by the fat and foolish Prince of Wales, when Beau Brummell set the fashions, when Byron was revelling in the popular success of Childe Harold, a sprightly young lady named Harriette Dubochet, who had run away from home to become a prostitute, was at the height of her career. Very small with brown hair and large eyes, the daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such...