Word: successful
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...chooses to fit this shoe to its foot. . . . World peace and world goodwill are blocked by only ten or 15% of the world's population. . . . And that is why even efforts to continue the existing limits on naval armaments into the years to come show such little current success. . . . "In the field of international finance we have, so far as we are concerned, put an end to dollar diplomacy, to money grabbing, to speculation for the benefit of the powerful and rich, at the expense of the small and the poor." [Applause] Neutrality. Because U. S. peace lovers have...
...went a trade mission sent by the Osaka branch of the Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst] campaign against them resulted in a tremendous...
...restraint. With Sibelius' Die Libelle she proved that she could trill. After spirituals the audience clamored for encores for a good half hour, until the hall's lights were dimmed and the curtains finally closed. Most singers are all too eager to capitalize on a sure-fire success. To get a glimpse of Marian Anderson after last week's concert, it was necessary to travel to Philadelphia, to a respectable eight-room flat in the Negro section. There the season's outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey...
Rose of the Rancho (Paramount). As a vehicle for the cinema debut of Contralto Gladys Swarthout, a revival of David Belasco's famed stage success recommended itself for obvious reasons. Born of U. S. parents and reared in Deep Water, Mo., Miss Swarthout has a Latin appearance well suited to a rigmarole about Spaniards in California and their efforts to hold their ancestral estates against early land-grabbers. Furthermore, the dual roles of Rosita Castro and Don Carlos, masked leader of the Spanish vigilantes, enable her to maintain a tradition which she inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera...
...disconcerted by the three trouncings received at the hands of Wittenberg, Toledo, and Ohto State during the vacation, Coach Wes Fesler feels that the trip was a complete success in that the team learned a lot of basketball from superior opponents. In a preliminary game at 6.30 o'clock, the two Freshman aggregations will meet in what promises to be a close, exciting tilt...