Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summarize the impression gained from "Hi-de-ho" is a strange task. It is impossible to judge the show according to ordinary standards. As a series of disorganized acts it wins success through the irrepressibility and charm of a talented collection of individual performers...
...letter to the club, Mr. Hayward says that there have been no definite financial arrangements made, but that he has secured the support of a large group of Chicago business men and thus feels sure that the project will be attended by success...
...also and primarily a musician. His father started him playing the kettledrum when he was 4; later he went abroad to study piano. He worked hard, returned to the U. S. and began to make a name for himself as a pianist. At the height of his Manhattan success Tycoon Rothstein came to Munck with a great idea: to make Manhattan music's acknowledged world capital by building and endowing a Lyceum of Music, with Munck as musical director. After many conferences, many misgivings, Munck let himself be won over by Roth-stein's young ally, Cecilia. Then...
...Paul's. Thus Mr. Adams could have presented his public with a competent Baedeker which is greatly needed by the novitiate. There is much in this sensitive, keen, and penetrating intellect that requires enlightenment. Burdened from youth with the consciousness of generations and of the necessities of success, Henry Adams drifted, until old age quieted, but did not satisfy him, in search, not of eternal verity and art, but power. As a young man he swayed on his intellectual toes between polities, literature and the press, uncertain, not as to which would bring him the most richness of life...
...planning their trips to this country to confer with President Roosevelt concerning reciprocal tariff reductions. It is understood that the main purpose of the meeting will be to reach some sort of "understanding" as a basis for the World Economic Conference this summer. This problem of finding a general success which can be also a particular success for each party concerned, presents difficulties which may be found insuperable...