Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspired research. There are many satisfying stories: The name Sherlock, at the last moment, supported that of I. Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality by purchasing the copyright for 25 pounds...
...diligence and effort to become President not only of one railroad but of many railroads. This has always been desirable, glorious, the aim of all true Americans. Yet in the movie it is analyzed closely to show that it is vicious, wicked, and ruinous to the happiness of the successful man. His life as a track walker was happy; his wife prodded him to ambition and success, which resulted only in unhappiness and suicide for both. This was not portrayed as a result of the characters of the two people, but as a result of their wealth, their success...
Last week another man marched up from Philadelphia to Manhattan to become the Post's new owner and publisher. Julius David Stern was a practical journalist in his shirtsleeves who had made a success of his blatant Philadelphia Record. To his 700 new employes Postman Stern told how he got the paper, where it would stand...
...Corporation backed researches on mayflies, vitamins, cosmic rays, American Indian languages, factors in the failure and success of college teachers. It published a translation of Algazel's Metaphysics, a treatise on Federal Education in Alaska...
...Prince" on the stage lacks all excuse. The company seems definitely to be trying to vitiate Romberg's music, nor is anything gained by introducing 1933 wise-cracks into what purports to be an 1840 atmosphere. Kathie reaches for the high notes with commendable energy but deplorable lack of success; Karl Franz acts like a wooden soldier and sings like a pelican. If the Student Prince is not to be allowed to die, there should at least be a penal law against dragging him from the grave with such brutality...