Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plumed hat and rhinestone-studded gloves. Equally of the period and all in big feathery hats, the Countess Jean de Polignac, the Duchess d'Harcourt and the Countess Jean de Vogue arrived from Paris' socialite Olympus to agree that only Mrs. Trefusis had transformed herself with complete success into "Diamond Lil" (see cut}. ''Of course I have ideas, but I don't tell them" is Mrs. Trefusis' drawling way of expressing delight that her Mae West party galvanized Paris stylists into swift, devastating action. After the openings last week alert buyers, repeating...
...limits of his training Author O'Connor has done a far better job than could be expected. On the labor policies and monopolistic tendencies of Mellon companies he looks with ill-concealed hatred, does not think to pry closely into the real causes of Andrew Mellon's success. Between the lines of his book these things appear: Mellon's willingness to back the right (but unknown) young men with substantial capital; Mellon's policy of lending to others for their ventures but never borrowing for Mellon ventures - building Mellon companies by plowing back profits decade after...
...father straggled off to Algiers. There, orphaned, Julius learned to steal, snuggle in the arms of a Negro laundress, consider the English a "race of fools." Presently, accompanied by a 14-year-old prostitute disguised as a boy, Julius was en route to London. In London he followed the success story formula. He worked as a baker's boy, bought out the bakery, turned it into a restaurant, opened another, built up his business until he had put "a chain around England." Meanwhile his prostitute died of consumption and Julius learned to like good living. He married a well...
...time of reconstruction such as this country is passing through at the present, along with the serious stabilizing attempts there are always amusing sidelights. In spite of the grimness in the air and the importance of success, it is interesting to note how differently groups now act in the face of a common danger...
...more than a year now I have been engaged in an attempt to persuade employers that we must do our part in spreading employment. ... It seems to me that it behooves every company to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to bring about the success of the National Recovery Plan. This has been and always will be the spirit of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey...