Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bare existence and opening up wider fields for adventure and achievement." Certain difficulties arise, of course, when the economic system is made too nearly like the body: these details, however damning in the eyes of Joy Street matrons, would not under normal circumstances, interpose any real obstacle to the success of the plan. Should the "new economy," however, fall heir to any of the ills of the flesh, and wander off some day, imagining itself somehow a modern Casanova, the results would be most painful...
Liberal handicaps will be given according to the previous experience of the entrants. A feature of the meet last year was the success of unknown entrants who in many cases were victorious over members of the University squads...
...success follow your birth...
...twelve national air races held in the U. S. only two have made money-Cleveland's in 1929 ($100,000), Chicago's in 1930 ($30,000). On the strength of its success, Cleveland persuaded the National Aeronautic Association to let it keep the races for five years beginning 1931, with option to renew for five years more. Each year National Air Races of Cleveland Inc. would pay the N. A. A. a $12,500 "sanction...
...correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard-man (1914), married (to Alice Walhams Hall), with two children, he lives quietly in Manhattan, shuns publicity, misses few tricks...