Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section of this State, because in the Tennessee Valley the nation as a whole is conducting-I hate to call it an experiment because it has got beyond that stage -but it is conducting a great humanitarian work which because of"-the train began to move-"its already proven success is going to mean much for the country in the days to come.'' The train was pulling out and Franklin Roosevelt, grasping tight the arm of Gus Gennerich, pitched the microphone into which he had been speaking over the railing to its owners on the platform. Following morning...
Continuing an experiment which was started with great success last year, the first of a series of six monthly meetings of prominent business executives will be held over the weekend at the Business School...
According to one biographer, if "Precaution" had been a success Cooper might possibly never have written another novel. But failure, instead of beating him down propped him up. And in 1821--one year after "Precaution"--"The Spy" appeared. The novel scored a prodigious success and deserved it. Apart from the excellence of his best works, Cooper deserves credit for showing Americans that a sea story could be made interesting. "The Pilot" was immensely popular. And, it will be recalled, seventeen years after "The Pilot", appeared Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" -- which resembles Cooper's work in its accidental...
...season. She was a slender graceful actress with a fine flair for comedy. She exhibited a natural coloratura voice so flexible and sure that critics forgave her the occasional tones which were metallic and edgy. Proud Father Salvatore Tumminia found that business picked up following his daughter's success. Two days after her début Tenor Schipa climbed into Barber Tumminia's chair, let him lather his face while pretty Daughter Josephine trilled...
...voice, Fonda receives a shock when he is ignored at a large party celebrating Soprano Pons's triumphant début. Taking the usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described...