Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort. One of those who is unfortunate enough to have his most fervent prayers answered, he becomes the most famous hairdresser in Paris, quite neglects his wife (we thought Aline rather a sweet little girl), is society's lion, is preyed upon by all females. So tremendous is his success with his great work and the women, that he is forced to accept the title of "Napoleon de la coiffure." But, gentlemen, the moral: There is a purpose underlying the wiles of women. Innocent little Denyse (daughter of Mario's best cliente) works Mario into her toils, and meekly proposes...
Continuing, he pointed out that an undergraduate who does not learn to apply himself diligently, and to exercise his mind while in college, can hardly hope to be a success in business, nor, for that matter, in any graduate school...
...prevailing spirit in the fact that Leverett was the last to retain a House Committee selected by the master. Some attempt to graft consciousness of the Houe Plan onto the residents has been made by the new elective committee, but it is still considered wise to insure the success of a dance by banding together with Adams. In other directions, paradoxically, the committee has met with success; the library is kept up to date, and the Music Room, an idea which originated in the House, has an excellent, though limited collection of records...
...winner, swung its votes behind the Rainey-Byrns ticket in return for the appointment as assistant majority leader of stocky, hard-bitten Thomas Henry Cullen from the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Jumping the South's traces, Texas joined the Rainey-Byrns-Cullen combination because its success would advance Representative James Paul Buchanan, a Texan, to the Appropriations Committee chairmanship vacated by Mr. Byrns...
With this heterogeneous mass Professor Merriman has striven nobly, by means of entry suppers and other gatherings, and largely to his efforts and aloof geniality may be attributed the progress of the House during the past year. In spite of the partly warranted criticisms on the success of the tutors in "preserving themselves from too frequent student contact," these much maligned gentlemen, while confining themselves fairly closely to their own dining table, have not been inactive in other relations with students. The energy and interest of Professor Matthiessen and Dr. Spencer were largely responsible for the extraordinary success...