Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Rowlandson made a last effort to pay off his creditors. He went to his solicitor, James Collins, tried again without success to borrow money on an invention for cutting steel...
This spring there was a novelty to be seen at a north London amusement park. It was no great success, but cockneys with a sixpenny bit could get into a tent and gawp at a gaunt, hollow-eyed woman with stringy dark hair sitting in a barrel. She was billed as "The Fasting Woman." Last week the bony body of the Fasting Woman lay behind a screen in the charity ward of a London hospital. A card was clipped over her bed: "NORINE LATTIMORE. . . . Born: Doughty St., London 1894. . . . Cause of death: cancer. . . ." Thus ended the career of Dolores...
...until the post-Lindbergh aviation boom did real success come to Sikorsky in the U. S. From his factory in Bridgeport, Conn., since then, has gone many an amphibian to the U. S. Navy, many a transport to Pan American Airways, many an air-yacht to U. S. tycoons. Two years ago his Russian mechanics built the world's first giant amphibian (S-40), the famed 40-passenger Yankee Clipper used on Pan American's over-water routes...
...Success came in 1912 when his seventh plane won the Petrograd Military Competition prize of 30,000 rubles. Shortly afterward a fuel-line, clogged by a dead mosquito, nearly cost Sikorsky his life in a forced landing. In 1913 (aged 24) he built and flew the world's first successful multi-motored airplane. His next model, a 4-engined monster which lifted twelve tons, made him famed as the "beardless father of Russian aviation." honored by Tsar and nation. During the War his huge Sikorsky bombers had a reputation for coming back. Of the 73 completed, only...
...quite rightly too?a bit of a lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News. The resounding success of The Good Companions, his second novel, freed him from Fleet Street. Once a widower and twice married, he has a family of five daughters, one son. Pudgy, slow-spoken, pipe-smoking. Author Priestley is an apotheosis of the sensible self-made British author...