Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical excerpts: "... I am a girl mobilized for social work. ... I have no time for love. . . ." ". . . My name has been engraved on the roll of honor of our factory. My wife Lida says 'Your success has been built upon my misfortunes.' I bought Lida a coat and a silk dress. Lida said 'I can't use your silk dress. I have nowhere to go.' And she threw it in my face. . . ." ". . . While I was busy with posters, flowers and parades ... I entirely forgot the existence of the man I love. . . ." Summing up all this Komsomolskaya...
Though all eyes were on Philadelphia, Philadelphia's chances for success were jeopardized by dissension and intrigue within its own Orchestra Association. Philadelphia's musical genius is Leopold Stokowski, who has long publicized his desire to revolutionize opera. Stokowski would have done great things with this year's performances. But the scheme was not his. It was Manager Arthur Judson's and Stokowski refused to help...
...market was ripe for bond flotations but the success of the Kidder, Peabody issue was due in large measure to the name the bonds bore: Scovill Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury, Conn., oldest and one of the largest brass companies in the U. S. It was not new financing; the last thing that rock-sound old Connecticut company needs is money...
What Every Woman Knows (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is that many a wife is responsible for her husband's success. The neat and genial comedy in which Sir James Barrie expressed this sentiment was first produced in the U. S. in 1908 with Maude Adams playing the lead, revived in 1926 for Helen Hayes. Helen Hayes has the same part in the cinema version- that of Maggie Wylie who marries a solemn young Scot against his will, helps him get elected to Parliament, manages his career for him so unobtrusively that he considers his accomplishments inspired by a glamorous outsider...
...that the Field was a more shambles by the end of the game, as were the players themselves. The brilliant play of Paul and Ballantine, neither of whom put in an appearance on the Field as far as can be remembered, was one of the reasons for the astounding success of the Crimson team...