Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Autumn Crocus" was one of the successes of last year both in New York and in London. It is a recoil from the hard-boiled type of comedy that is represented by Mr. Noel Coward, being written in the tradition of Barrie. Instead of depending for its appeal on verbal celverness, or shocking lines it sets up in place of these an air of quiet pleasantness and of deliberately sentimental romance. It is difficult to draw the line between tenderness and a sweetness that becomes sickening; but Barrie was able to do it and it is done with almost...
...into the matter of placing a night lunch in Adams House." When questioned on the possibility of an Adams night grill, Roy L. Westcott, manager of the University Dining Halls, said "It is very difficult to say off-hand whether or not the proposed cafeteria would be a financial success, . . . (but) the night lunch now operating in Eliot House carries itself...
...chief argument advanced in favor of the bill is not that our present naval defense is insufficient for the national safety. Rather it is that a Treaty-strength navy will place us in a favorable bargaining position at the 1935 Naval Conference. The success of the Washington Conference should have proved that practical agreements on naval disarmament are more often reached when nations approach the diplomatic tete-a-tetes with actual evidence of disarmament as well as desire for it. Demanding smaller navies on one hand and building larger ones with the other, our government will end up by leading...
Starting at the Metropolitan Theatre on Friday is an adaptation of the stage success, "Death Takes a Holiday...
...residents of the Yard join his posture class, that innocuous gathering which spends six weeks in corrective exercises. Mr. Fradd is an experienced practitioner, several of the larger New England private schools have engaged his services in order to teach their pupils to hold their noses up, and his success in that field has been marked. In his six weeks of Freshman training he does as much as is possible to untwist scholarly spines and set shoulders level, but can any man correct an individual body in six weeks...