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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations upon a difficult job performed with a modicum of success. You have managed to introduce a cheap and flippant note even in your account of persons most sacred to Canadians: your story of the Royal Visit to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Saturday's Clover Club celebration was a great success. Mike's current patron, Jules Stein of the Music Corporation of America, donated an orchestra. Mike himself showed up with $25 in his pocket which he pyramided to $125 at the gaming tables before the party broke up at 6 a. m. Missing from the guest list were a great many familiar Hollywood partygoers, including fat Elsa Maxwell, cafe society's coast-to-coast whoops-a-daisy. Explained the host: "No phonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buffet Supper | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Commencement Day, as the year officially closes, the Huntington School diploma will be awarded to those who have earned it. Now it is as good a time as any to congratulate these young men and to wish them success as they face the future. May they continue to find rewards for good work done as other years in their life experience open and close. C. H. Sampson, in the Huntington Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A THOUGHT FOR '39 | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...Album had a good idea. But its first experiment in intellectual interpretation cannot be called a success. It is not only inaccurate; it is synthetic, unreal. The senior, taking his place beside the graduates of other years, is a marked man. He is branded as a conscious intellectual, an affected liberal. And only if the Revolution really comes, will the child of tomorrow look up from these glittering pages, wave his chubby fist in the air and cry, "Daddy, you're wonderful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DADDY, YOU'RE WONDERFUL!" | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...most of the big-name, expensive radio shows leave the air during the spring and summer, when listeners presumably spend less time at home. At summer's end, when the regulars return, small-fry survivors are few. Of last year's dozens of new shows, the standout success is Information Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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