Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...role of penniless aristocratic cousins with an impressive genealogical background, they make a last desperate attempt to obtain a rich bride for the here. After several complications. Albert finds that he can marry where true love guides him. Grant Mitchell, who has never equaled in the films the success he scored in the play. "Little Accident," gave a satisfactory interpretation of the deputy sheriff. Neither Leila Hyama nor Thelma Todd were allowed to act: but they were on the screen a great deal...
When United Feature Syndicate bought North and South American serial rights to Charles Dickens' The Life of Our Lord (TIME, March 12), many a newsman thought it had purchased a dead horse. But the pious story which Dickens wrote for his children proved to be an eminent success. It increased the circulation of newspapers using it by an aggregate 1,000,000. an average of 10% per paper. Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature hailed it as "the greatest circulation builder of all time," better even than the War photographs lately in vogue (TIME...
...government. She, unmarried still, is planning an accouchement. She hopes her child will forget the informality of its origin when it sees the spectacle of "burning cities . . . marching armies ... a funeral procession towards a red horizon." Of the four plays that opened in Manhattan last week, Playwright Lawson (Processional, Success Story) wrote two. He received congratulations only on his industry. The opening of The Pure in Heart amounted to a wink, for it closed after seven performances. Whatever Playwright Lawson had in mind when he wrote Gentlewoman is lost, like his heroine, in words, beautiful but superfluous. Its most interesting...
Observing that the first year, whether of a student in a university or of its President, was the one in which foundations for success were laid, President Conant said that the hard work did not begin until the years following. He complimented the class for having reestablished the Harvard Memorial Society for the celebration of the Tricentennial of the University which will occur in the class Senior year. Then, reading from the words of President Eliot, he stressed the importance of a choice of study that would make for the intellectual expansion of each individual and which would bring...
...white oak. . . . . and steady of eye and trigger-finger", Mr. Wilson must have soon learned why others had not attempted to write a biography of his chosen hero. Lewis was far from being an outstanding man and except for his leadership of the Expedition of Discovery (whose success may with greater justice be attributed to William Clark, the second in command) which he received through the patronage of Thomas Jefferson, we may be sure that the name of Merriwether Lewis would never have been recorded in history except as a moderately successful army officer beaten down by a morbid sense...