Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he sees his college taking in all this easy money he sees no reason why he should not receive something for the hard work which brings so much money into the college till. At this point comes the bootlegging alumnus, filled with ardor for the success of Alma Mater, ready to subsidize the young athlete by dark and devious methods...
...Laugh Parade" is simply a succession of vaudeville sketches featuring Mr. Wynn or elss a specially performer to whom Mr. Wynn is an expert feeder of situations, and the before mentioned song and dance numbers. At the performance which the Playgoer attended, the audience showed its excellent judgment by reserving its enthusiastic applause for the scenes in which Ed Wynn dominates. Apart from his other talents, this comedian has an excellent reputation for his ability to build up situations for his fellow-players. Many of the specialty numbers in the "Laugh Parade" draw their chief merit from the running commentary...
MOST of the early writers on democracy stressed the importance of education in making self-government a success. If they could return today and see what the result of the extension of educational facilities has been, there can be no doubt they would be thoroughly disillusioned. The almost unbelievable increase in the complexity of governmental problems has been accompanied by no corresponding development in the capacity of the electorate to deal with them, in spite of a vastly enlarged school system. Some hold that this failure is due to the inherent intellectual limitations of the common...
Warming to his broadcast, the Chancellor cried: "When you gentlemen of the Nazis [Hitler Party] begin your class warfare against the fine people, against the Barons, and when you think success at the elections will follow such tactics, I am afraid you are in for a bitter disappointment...
...Manhattan. They have revised and cut it, added a new beginning. They still deserve credit as the discoverers of Bali, despite Charles Trego's lovelier Isle of Paradise (TIME, Sept. 12). Goona-Goona was shown at the French Colonial Exposition in Paris, rushed out of storage following the success of Isle of Paradise...