Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making the kind of pictures which cinemaddicts prefer, most producers do not attempt to specialize. Alert cinemaddicts realize, however, that there are a few exceptions to this rule. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer runs to lavish casts. Universal last year was addicted to monsters. Encouraged five years ago by the vast success of Seventh Heaven to believe that simple, sentimental romances of the type which Mary Pickford played in 15 years ago are not yet obsolete, Fox has diligently furnished them. Usually Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are hero & heroine. Their antics delight naive audiences and bewilder supercilious ones. Rebecca of Sunnybrook...
...Coast Guard cutters, the British naval unit at Bermuda, twelve seaplanes and 60 privately owned ships had failed to discover the Curlew, the U. S. Navy Department ordered U. S. S. Akron, world's largest airship, to join the hunt. The Akron flew to Bermuda and back without success, was preparing to make another flight when word came last week that the Curlew had been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than at the start of the race. She was proceeding toward the Bronxonia Yacht...
...remembered. Instead of oil, a black turbid liquid had been pouring through one set of her fuel pipes, burning with sudden fierceness when it reached the combustion area under the boiler. First commercial company ever to use colloidal fuel, the Cunard Line last week called its experiment a complete success. Ignored for eleven years, colloidal fuel was news at last...
...Chitina Weekly Herald is not able to express its great loss at not having Billy with us. ... His humor received many a letter for his success in that line. While the paper will never be the same as it was, Philip [10, brother of Adrian, reporter, business manager] and I pledge ourselves to our faithful subscribers that we will try our best to make the paper interesting, and in the best way we can fill the place that has been left for us. . . . For a year and 5 months Billy has been doing a lot of the finest kind...
...Ambassador Gibson scored any success at Geneva last week it was in bringing the French delegation around to a slightly less hostile attitude toward the President's proposals. In the House of Commons last week acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (Majority) Party, said: "We can't settle matters by merely declaring we agree with the United States. . . . The most dangerous thing we could do would be to say the thing could be achieved in a certain way without first examining all the details...