Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game bird. Quail are trapped by farmers, bought by racketeers who sell them in violation of State and Federal laws to breeding firms and shooting preserves as "field-bred" or "im-ported Mexican" birds. A furtive and elusive business, this rural racket has been fought for years with little success by the Department of Justice...
...white & blue striped peppermint candy which he distributed to children. His second campaign, in 1924, for lieutenant governor, he lost by taking a trip around the world, sending his constituents political postcards from such places as Port Said, Singapore, Shanghai, Kobe. In 1932 he had his first major political success when, as a Wet, he waged a timely campaign against wealthy Senator Cameron Morrison. Bob Reynolds had stumped the State in an old Ford for six months, staged a surprising act in many a hillbilly town. Appearing on the platform with a roll of carpet under his arm, Candidate Reynolds...
...weeks of scarlet fever and quarantine in an old-fashioned hospital in Odessa he was glad to be leaving Russia. Nevertheless the U. S. S. R. impressed him: the kindliness of the people, the devotion of the minority of patriots who are working to bring the Russian experiment to success. Says he: "Only idiots gush about Russia. Only idiots pretend that life there is easy . . . whomever...
COMPROMISE-Royal Wilbur France- Dorrance ($2.50). Following close on the heels of Alvin Johnson (TIME, April 20), another economist takes to fiction, offering a case study of a bright young lawyer who chooses political success at the cost of his ideals. Professor France holds his own in following the slimy trail of corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos...
...Freshman who claimed that he was without his card upon questioning was summarily searched by the Aptedmen, who succeeded in finding the ducat upon him. Another who failed to have his card was searched without success. When the Yard policeman thereupon claimed that he would remember his face, the Freshman made an atrocious face and left the scene with rapidity...