Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still other subscribers are lost as far as the Coop is concerned, and it is the search for these to which the manager was referring. This quest will last for upwards of two year until finally crowned by success...
...initial success of the Manhattan campaign for less noise brought joy to Ernest Henry Peabody, 66, a combustion engineer. Because John D. Rockefeller Jr., a childhood friend, showed no interest, Mr. Peabody, whose business runs itself, spent $1,500 of his own money on antinoise propaganda, collected $700 from friends, hopes others will help out. He eventually got action out of the Mayor by giving a new name to an ineffectual League for Noise Abatement. The name which Mr. Peabody invented is the League for Less Noise. The old name got no results...
Last week Sacha Guitry offered a volume of reminiscence and anecdote in which such childish experiences were interwoven with buoyant observations on the theatre, genius, great actors and great hams; on the perils and joys of playwrighting; on travel, success and the frightful ordeal of being hissed after a complete and overwhelming flop. Although it traces the main outlines of his career, the chief distinction of If Memory Serves is its abundance of good stories, some sentimental, some hilarious, but each swift, effective, written with a neat black-out ending...
...desperate attempt to rewin his audience leaned too far out the window of the set, bumped his head, fell flat on the floor. Next day his contract was canceled. Conscious of a vast relief, he sat down that same day, wrote the first act of Nona, his first success, in two hours...
...might have been very different. Harlow himself has admitted that his first team at Harvard will not be in top form until the pigskin season is well along in ago. The question for the moment is: will the punishment the Varsity is likely to take today retard this eventual success too much? Here's hoping it won't, for there is no one down at Soldiers Field who doesn't feel that given "a break" Harvard's new coaching regime will "produce the goods." TIME...