Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati Enquirer's "Swap" column appeared this advertisement: ''Have complete course, 'How to become a success,' will swap for room rent...
Corollary to his order permitting export of newly mined gold, President Roosevelt issued at the same time new orders requiring gold hoarders to report their holdings and turn them in-penalty for failure $10,000 fine or ten years in prison. No startling success has been Attorney General Cummings' gold hunt to date. After starting out last June to recover "$500,000,000 of gold in hoarding," he admitted fortnight ago that he had located but $39,000,000. Yet sternly intent remains the President that gold hoarders shall not profit like gold miners by selling their gold abroad...
...quarrel they have remained best friends. Both of them acknowledge that they are geniuses. Gertrude Stein "realizes that in English literature in her time she is the only one. She has always known it and now she says it." Though she does not believe in popular success she would like to have had a little more recognition. For years she could not get even a part of her magnum opus (The Making of Americans) printed; her influence has been largely vicarious, and she has not always approved of the writers (notably Ernest Hemingway) whom she has influenced...
Under Mr. Leighton great strides have been taken in unifying the life of the student in his first year, and in making the Freshman Union and the Yard a real center for Freshman activity. At present he is trying, and with success, too, to bring the first year man into intimate contact with his Faculty Adviser, who can, and should, offer valuable advice concerning courses concentration, distribution, and especially how to avoid them. Always forward-looking, like a good protege of the progressive Dean Hanford, "Del" Leighton has proved the value of the office created...
...some 20 years ago. Presenting Lily Mars concerns a Southern smalltown girl whose untutored genius as an actress the story never manages to make remotely plausible. Flirtatious Lily had never gone further than high school lessons in elocution, consequently enjoyed a fixed conviction that she was destined for high success on the New York stage. Her conviction is stubbornly shared by her down-at-heel family and by Mrs. Gilbert, a family friend whose son Owen is a playwright. When Owen returns home on vacation before the rehearsals of his new play, his mother tries to get him to give...