Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slightly intoxicated by the success of his animal story, Spain's Chief Delegate now seriously proposed to enlarge the Conference by admitting on an equal footing with the accredited representatives of 57 sovereign states the numerous women who represented in Geneva last week a very large number of peace societies...
Lionel Barrymore's success in cinema has recently been more marked than that of his brother but he is not now, nor has he ever been, equipped with that peculiar glitter that surrounds his brother. The fact that Lionel's nose is too blunt for any critic to have described him as "an elegant paper cutter moving through the drama" may somewhat account for this. He is neither a dope-fiend nor a drunkard; he seldom abuses critics in print and he made his stage debut at 15. Like his brother, he later tried to be a painter...
...advantage of playing on a percentage basis, setting lower minimum fees, then taking a share of the box-office over & above the amount needed for expenses. Paderewski, playing on percentage, will make approximately $250,000 for himself from his 65 concerts this season. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett's cinema success has made him the season's second best money-getter...
...Rental libraries are rapidly popularizing the kind of novels that Mrs. Horatio Alger, had she existed, would probably have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth...
Dean Stoddart's plan would therefore be the very death of these liberal colleges which he seeks to rescue. Its whole fault lies in that he goes too far. It has been amply demonstrated by the success of several progressive institutions that what is really needed is not so much a general smattering of all knowledge as an emphasis on one special field accompanied by an understanding of its relation to other important subjects. Opinions may differ as to the efficacy of Dean Stoddart's plan but common sense would certainly dictate that a system similar to that which...