Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President Coolidge's physician]. Captain Boone stood in good favor with the Press and Cabinet and leaders in political life, and for them to appear at our play (The Springboard, no success] at his suggestion would mean space in the newspapers...
...hour of his success a small incident occurred. In Minneapolis several thousand relief workers converged on the City Hall to demand of the City Welfare Board a 40% increase in relief allowances, continuation of CWA work, an end to the requirement that former CWA workers prove their need in order to get relief. When the Welfare Board did not admit a delegation of the protesters within five minutes, the crowd broke down the door of the Mayor's reception room where the Board was meeting. The Board members scampered out through other exits. It was just an incident, little...
...Mexico City. Villa is not a success. He goes home presently to Chihuahua. He is buying a dozen pork chops for his newest girl when Don Felipe del Castillo, watching from a window across the street, leans out and shoots him dead...
...those unpretentious little Irish genre comedies of the Abbey Players. The parallelism goes further in the wake scene, after Henry is supposed to have gone off despondently and drowned himself. Needless to say, Henry reappears, alive and happy in a store-bought suit and brown derby, his "projeck" a success. First-week audiences seemed immensely pleased when Henry outwitted his onetime white employer, sold for $10,000 an option on some land which had only cost him $1,000. Magniloquently, Henry gives his patient wife a thousand, his gambling brother-in-law another thousand, his son still another...
...National Student League at Harvard is highly gratified at the success of the anti-war strike held this morning. Efforts on the part of campus rowdies to disrupt the demonstration failed, due to the strong determination of the students to make this a genuine indication of their opposition...