Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea that a member of Congress must support the Administration, even when he thinks it is the wish of his constituents on a particular issue to vote otherwise, is not altogether new in American politics. It has been espoused before but with little success by either party. President Taft in 1910 tried to punish the Western Insurgents by threatening to withhold "patronage," but the attempt was a boomerang. The Republican regulars tried it again shortly after 1912, but in 1916 welcomed their opponents into the fold...
...forty years he has administered the affairs of the university with wisdom, with patient foresight, with courage, and with success...
...fact that the action takes place in 1893 provides Mr. Rogers an opportunity to pronounce a few homilies on depressions in general. Despite his success in this field over the radio it is a curious fact that these section are the least successful parts of the picture. His horse-trading scenes and the trotting race where he had to sing to keep his horse from balking, on the other hand, were exhilaratingly effective. We haven't heard an audience laugh so unanimously since the good old days of Charlie Chaplin...
...they will be allowed to read the lines of any character in the show. Criticism has been leveled against the club recently because of its system of tryouts and the officers think that the new method is fairer. This plan was tried at Radcliffe last Friday with noticeable success...
...concluded arrangements whereby the English and American additions of all his future works will be issued simultaneously in the two countries. The current Shaw volume in a book of three plays, comprising "Too True to Be Good". "Village Wooing", and "On the Rocks", the last being the season's success at the Winter Garden Theatre in London...