Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance, Mr. Andrew McLewis wants to lend him money, all sorts of unknown friends are anxious of help him. "It's not your money we want," they say, "indeed, we will not mention the cost of these trifles; it's your help, your welfare, your friendship, your success, your health that we are after...
Although unfortunate, the action of the Athletic Committee in declaring Captain Bob Haley ineligible was forthright and in accord with Harvard's traditionally high athletic policy. Thus the Harlow regime begins with a reaffirmation of standards. And the success it promises will be enhanced by the security of the ground upon which it stands...
...assortment of sweatered rogues talking Cockney out the sides of their mouths, the plot capers at the Bishop's gaitered heels as he discovers that the crime was planned by Hester (Maureen O'Sullivan) and Donald (Norman Foster) to "get back the stolen papers." Walter Connolly made a great success as the Bishop in the Broadway version of Frederic Jackson's play last winter, but it is hard to believe that anyone could be as good as Edmund Gwenn is in this adaptation. He is even convincing when his Episcopalian relish for a nice little crime gets the young people...
...Sunday, had been National Communion Day for 20.500,000 U. S. Catholics whose 20.000 priests saw to it that they knew of the Cleveland Congress and its aims and would pray for its success. Of the faithful millions, some 200.000 were devoutly setting out all over the land and in the Manhattan Cathedral the Cardinal and his entourage knelt briefly, chanted the Itinerarium, an ancient prayer of the Church for those about to depart on a journey...
...clad in beach shorts and shirt. From the beginning he was determined to have his opera indigenous to the U. S. He was fascinated by the beauty of Negro singing, the spontaneity of Negro acting. Said he: "They've tried the Indian dozens of times but unfortunately with little success...