Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writer White is the second prominent staffman of The New Yorker to show drawing ability after success in writing. Three years ago he collaborated with his staffmate James Thurber in writing a book called Is Sex Necessary? Writer White noticed that Writer Thurber had 1 habit of nervously scribbling little figures and throwing them in the wastepaper basket. Writer White fished them out, found them amusing enough to save. Publishers Harper & Bros, also found Writer Thurber's hastily scrawled figures amusing, used them to illustrate Is Sex Necessary? Since then the sketchy, slightly neurotic illustrations of Writer Thurber have...
Provided that the showing of Walter Hasenclever's romance, the American premier of which will be held in the Rogers Building on May 3, 4, 5, and 6, is a financial success, the Club will regard their new quarters as their own workshop, in which to hold forth until the new fire-station is erected. They have been told by certain city officials that lack of appropriations for the station may give them perhaps two or more years in their experimental theatre. It is unlikely that the Fire Department will build early next fall as originally planned...
...Dramatic Club is facing a trial of strength in the production of "Napoleon Intrudes" next week. Upon the success or failure of this new play may well depend the continued existence of the Club itself. If the Dramatic Club can prove itself financially and artistically it will have gained a new lease on life and will have re-established itself upon a solid basis. At the present time everything favors success...
...great deal of work. No student, however, will regret any effort expended on this course. It is a tribute to the course that many of its former students are now holding high positions in Washington, and in Government posts in foreign countries. Indeed so great has been the success of men in getting into the foreign service on the basis of Government 4 preparation, that a Senatorial investigation into the matter has been rumored...
...Forum is unfortunately not the sort of thing which can be reproduced wholesale. Its success has depended mainly on the interest of a few tutors and about twenty active undergraduates. It has to fight constantly a tendency to degenerate into an aimless tea party. Because of these difficulties, it would be futile to try to inaugurate similar groups in every House. On the other hand, the Forum has a real function other than those of an Economic Society or of the Liberal Club, and in other years such groups might well flourish in several Houses...