Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Backed by Pink Pills & Fruitatives, Father Arthur Hardy, already a social leader of Ottawa, was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate by Liberal Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King. This position he filled with apparent success despite his almost total deafness. Not long ago Daughter Mary mistook poison for Fruitatives in her medicine closet and died. Last January Son Fulford Patrick Hardy eloped with a 16-year-old Toronto school girl, and after a wild ride from Toronto to Detroit to Toledo to Crown Point, Ind., finally got married. They separated soon after...
...subject of the stolen fence. He said that they were all very sorry to hear of the deed and had set their ace of detectives on the trail of the evildoers. Mr. Bob Lampoon himself set out after the perpetrators of the crime and at last was rewarded with success. With a quick flourish of the wrist, he moved back the table cover and showed underneath, the missing property. The Elis cheered, and cheered, and late that night sent it back to New Haven under special guard in a special crate. It had been kept in a house...
...Nowadays with all the deception and trick plays, a player has to be smart to make a success. He must know how to run, how to block, how to protect against passes, and how to handle assignments on a varied list of plays. Teams now have more speed than they used to and why not, a player has an outfit that allows him to move agilely about. By actual weight a football uniform in my day in the last few minutes of play on a wet afternoon would weigh from 55 to as high as 65 pounds. How could...
...Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were impressed by the enormous chorus. They liked the tender love motifs. But by the time Schönberg was on the way to becoming a popular composer he had lost his taste for conventional harmonies. He started working on the 12-tone scale, gave...
...World had been under the late great Joseph Pulitzer: New York's great, crusading, liberal newspaper. Last week there was cause for jubilation in Publisher Howard's orientally splendiferous sanctum. The paper's first great crusade, the New York mayoralty election, had been an unqualified success. Fusionist LaGuardia had been swept into office by a huge majority (see p. 16). Tammany's control of the municipal government had been smashed for the first time since the World helped John Purroy Mitchel smash it 20 years...