Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shambling Billy Hill is a bit befogged by the song's raging success. Most satisfying to him is the fact that in the Southwest honest-injun cowboys, who rarely sing cowboy songs nowadays, are singing "The Last Round-Up" and singing it as if it belonged to them...
...which were adapted to the shorter arm movememt of the swimmers. In the first place, the Japanese were completely relaxed in the water. There was no tension of any part; every muscle was loose and ready for work. To this lack of tension has been attributed much of the success of the team. There were more important reasons, however, for any swimmer realizes the advantage of complete relaxation...
...Deal." It is one of the most interesting and stimulating of the speculations which the moves of the NRA have induced, and in its original mode of attack, it is sure to attract attention from many classes. Mr. Hitchell commences by pointing out the evident fact that the success of the NIRA depends on the decision of the Supreme Court, when that body is eventually faced with a test case. He then proceeds to discuss the philosophy, life, and opinions of the judges, in an attempt partially to predict their decisions. He touches on the fundamental questions of property rights...
...weapon is the spirit of nationalism. With conviction born of psychological necessity these men have hallowed that sentiment with the bathos of a thousand speeches, a thousand parades. Pushed on by the pressure of those who would upset them, they have identified the welfare of the country with the success of their own class; and they have further attempted to lay a smokescreen of patriotism before the issues where they stand in political danger. In England in 1931, in France today, in Germany last March, in Italy in 1920, they have converted their own weak position into a "National Crisis...
...night of "The Late Christopher Bean" at the Plymouth Theatre marked the return of Pauline Lord to the Boston stage for the first time in six years. Miss Lord is one of America's most capable actresses, and while "The Late Christopher Bean" is far from being her greatest success, it at least must leave her reputation intact...