Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole program of study in the preparatory school is arranged with the goal of College Board Examinations in view. The blighting influence of this goal atrophies all attempts to introduce training beyond the strict limits of requirements. When the competence of a teacher is judged by his pupils' success in the examinations, he can hardly afford to squander time on material not included in the College Board syllabus. Thus, instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes. Instructors find outlines of the questions in their subject for the past ten, fifteen, or twenty-five years more useful than treatises...
...beneficial tendencies. Nevertheless, one feature of the New Plan does offer a valuable suggestion for a reorganization of the entrance requirements. The comprehensive examination in English, which all applicants under this scheme are compelled to take, has proved, according to recent research, to be the most reliable indication of success at College...
...spectators who witnessed this slick musicomedy success last week could have guessed the travail its book had undergone. When the Morro Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able...
That idiotic question was the beginning of one of vaudeville's characteristically fabulous success stories. Second-rate Comedian Joe Penner, born Joseph Pinta at Nadgybeck Kereck, Hungary, became almost immediately a first-rate comedian. He got a tour with Paramount Publix stage shows, a contract for 15 Warner Brothers shorts. In the course of the next two years, he had two more inspirations: 1) "You nasty man!" 2) "Don't never do that!" By 1933, all three had become household slogans. Because of his radio popularity, Joe Penner's weekly salary jumped from...
Many another potent Couch friend attended the stag house party but the Press was conspicuously absent. A guard on the bridge from the shore to the island kept the unwanted away. Burning with curiosity, newshawks tried long-distance calls without success. Nor would the great guests be interviewed as they arrived or departed. Their host kept insisting...