Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important of all to the success of the demonstration was one Charles Shep herd Hutson. Los Angeles lithographer and grand jury foreman. His duty it was to stand back on the platform and hold up a series of numbered placards, to signal for the band, the lights, the balloons, the organ, etc., etc. as they had been carefully scheduled to sustain a half-hour "demonstration." When he held up the placard numbered "1" and blew a whistle, the band, poised at an exit with Governor Rolph at its head, marched on the floor. Organized pandemonium broke loose...
...question, "Is the Experimental College a success?" Dr. Meiklejohn attempts no flat answer. In general, parents said yes. But Experimenter Meiklejohn and his Advisers, viewing it as an educational method, find the problem more difficult, content themselves with making observations, presenting recommendations to the University whose President Glenn Frank helped plan the College. Some observations...
...student health (emotional, mental, spiritual, physical) : the Advisers tried to discover what conditions were needed to make the College a healthful place. "They have little success to report...
...publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles in color design the wings of the peacock or the inner gleam of the emerald; or to seek the "taste" of a certain cigarette because "in the ring it's punch"; we are asked to believe that social success and domestic happiness depend primarily on ability to play the gazook or freedom from halitosis; and the Lucky Strike company now has the effrontery to tell the American people that inhalation of their weed is free from the harmful effects present in all other cases. Some advertisers seem to feel...
...could not feel at home with them. . . . The leech is an epicure. If he is not hungry you put a little sugar water on the skin to coax him. To make him let go you put salt water. . . . He is also a social barometer. If Prohibition was a success, then there would be less drunks, less black eyes, less demand for leeches. But no, the leech business is good. . . . You drive an old horse into the water. When he comes out he is covered with leeches. But better yet is a nice fat lady...