Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram received at Shanghai from Manchuria's famed General Ma (TIME, Nov. 23). For more than 40 days, according to his telegram, General Ma has been double-crossing everyone with a skill and success unrivaled even among heathen Chinese...
...wish I felt at liberty to name the single family of many members, with separate homes whose early purchases bridged the narrow margin between success and failure." Last week his son, rotund Robert Macbeth, admitted that they were the Pratts of Long Island. Other important collectors were persuaded to buy U. S. art by soft-spoken William Macbeth: Miss Lizzie Bliss, Hotelman Edwin A. McAlpin, Hugh D. Auchincloss, Financier Stephen V. Harkness. Collector Emerson McMillan had such a passion for pictures that he used to come in with a little red notebook and demand...
...sincere pleasure to submit this report covering the present condition of our company and our activities during the year 1931. . . . We feel that you have every reason to be confident of our continued success...
...induces nausea in some readers?Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream Author Hanley owes much of the success of his early efforts to the wake of Richard Aldington and Poet Robert Graves in his country. John Dos Passes and William Faulkner...
...arrives the great Otto Zeigen, the Rumanian millionaire (Mr. Perkins). That gives the amorists their chance to trick the husband once again. Actress Gish sets out to ensnare Zeigen, Actor Hull tries to charm a kitchen maid (porcelain-faced Jean Arthur of the films). Neither has much success at first. Zeigen, it turns out, is a man of frugal habits. He is ready for an onion sandwich and bed. The kitchen maid does not think Actor Hull "very interesting." However, next morning, Zeigen gets and willingly takes the spousal wrath, settles with a check and departs with the irate husband...