Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that "after all, success in later life depends not on a vast amount of accumulated facts but upon the ability to organize these facts..." This has been the refrain of phlegmatics ever since the idea had its inception in certain courses. The popularity of Eible study at Harvard is not unrelated to permitting the use of the text in examinations in that course. It is altogether conceivable that in that instance, and, perhaps in certain others, the practice is justifiable. But advocacy of wide extension of the scheme is a different matter...
...like to add a word of praise for your miscellany column to that given it by Jack Beater, who claims he wrote and sold a short story suggested by one of the items. I, too, have written a story suggested by that column, but I have had absolutely no success in selling...
...richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself, rich furs and jewels, a private car which she named...
...Middle Ages are a literary mine whose rich veins are still far from exhausted, are now beginning again to be reworked. Nineteenth Century romancers like Walter Scott and Charles Reade brought up so many tons of ore that the market for a time was overloaded, but the success of such modern miners as Lion Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess) and Alfred Neumann (The Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted...
...able to take advantage of them is definitely limited, both by time and by natural abilities. Admittedly the best arena for the desired meeting of tutor and student is the House dining-room, but the stubborn persistence of the tutors' table in most of the Houses prevents success here to a great degree...