Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major Bolshevik objective pursued without success ever since the fall of Tsardom: to float a fat Soviet loan abroad and get Bolshevik bonds regularly listed on an exchange outside Russia...
...reckless bohemian in his early manhood. Hearn had declared his acceptance of paganism as a way of life, and had frequently expressed his distaste for U. S. civilization, for "all that is energetic, swift, rapid ... all competition, rivalry, all striving in the race for success"; had characterized New York as a monstrous "city walled up to the sky and roaring like the sea." Since his death in 1904 the legend has grown that he was a writer whose great natural gifts were frustrated, that his slight and graceful essays are no true indication of his stature. Critics w?ho believe...
...Collection by NRA's skeleton of data on the past success of the codes and on the "orgy of wage slashing" that was expected to follow NRA's unmanning by the Supreme Court...
...Lefty got to Broadway by way of the Group Theatre (TIME, April 8). With lines as pointed as a stiletto, with a unique technical trick which used the theatre audience as spectators at a taxi union's mass meeting, Waiting for Lefty turned out to be a crashing success in tolerant Manhattan.* Thereupon, one by one, 32 League groups produced the show in the country at large and the trouble began. Plays of the calibre of Mr. Morgan's Nightmare had evidently been beneath the notice of the American Legion, Friends of New Germany and other illiberal groups...
...famed dance bands, Paul Whiteman's has the richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile. Leo Reisman, another pioneer, is on the wane. The Lombardo band persists in "flabbing" but the public likes it. Two years ago dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved an unexpected showman, smart enough in radio to find new talent, provide a skillful frame. Most "hot" jazz fans still regard black Duke Ellington as the greatest...