Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feat she is abetted by her real-life husband, Sonnie Hale. When the two first meet, she is a couturiere's stage-struck messenger girl, he a music hall female impersonator. He catches cold, loses his voice, induces her to take his place. She is so great a success that, for the purposes of the picture at least, to withdraw is inexpedient. Offstage she wears gentlemen's clothes, on-stage appears in vast glittering production numbers...
...would have liked to be remembered. With his colleague Robert Morss Lovett, Moody once ground out a textbook History of English Literature, and it is this repository of college entrance board wisdom that keeps his memory a dusty green. Few but his contemporaries now remember his Broadway success, now as dead as David Garrick, nor his poetry, once considered a minor glory of the western world. These letters of Moody's to Mrs. Harriet Converse Brainard, the platonic friend whom he married a year before his early death, reincarnate the likable human figure of a literary...
...then started the climb to Parnassus by the academic path. It was while he was teaching English at the University of Chicago that he met "Harriet," who kept alive the torch of culture by all-night literary conversaziones around a lakeshore bonfire. When his drudged-out textbook's success set him free to travel and write for himself, Moody and Harriet kept their friendship going by mail. His letters were intimate but literary, extremely publishable. They are not love-letters so much as polished exhortations; his emotions lie neatly pressed between these pages. Not Harriet's image...
...soar with no middle flight. But he was pleased when a play he had written, The Great Divide, pleased Actress Margaret Anglin, liked it even better when the play was a Broadway hit and put his name in U. S. lights. He tried again but never repeated his success. When Harriet finally divorced her husband and married Moody, it was only for a brief honeymoon and a long last illness. After his death she continued to be a friend to the friends of the Muse: her warm-hearted hospitality is still grate fully remembered by many a poet. And before...
After a year's trial, the new plan for awarding large scholarships to students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been declared a success and made an essential part of the 300th Anniversary Fund Program, according to Dean of the School George H. Chase '96. Ho explained that scholarship donations will be used for graduate students as well as undergraduates...