Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make ends meet. In time she established herself as a respectable boardinghouse keeper, and one by one she set about marrying off her daughters to the star boarders. The first two were soon settled, but thin, dark, energetic little Eva had other ideas. Movie magazines were full of Cinderella success stories, and there was a girl down the street who had run away to sing in Buenos Aires and ended up a banker's wife. Eva knew what she wanted. After two years of high school, she left for the big city, to become one of the desperate band...
...Millennium. U.N. distributed anniversary material to radio stations in 54 lands and in 21 languages. One disappointment : nobody at Lake Success could be found to put the program into Pushtu for the Afghan man-in-the-street...
...coasters, popcorn and free rides on fire engines. Said he: "I'm worried about my rabbits." When they talked shop, they debated only one question: who had backspin on shooters and who didn't. Backspin, to make the shooter stick in the ring, was the key to success on the slick cork rings, which were faster than dirt. No one gave away any trade secrets. Roanoke asked Columbia, S.C.: "Ever play for fun?" Columbia answered scornfully: "Whaddaya mean...
...become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents her screen success; in the last scene, after a crippling fall, it is implied that she sacrifices her thin chances for life rather than stand him up on a date...
Last week in Bluffton, the day came for ingathering of talents. It was a smashing success. The Business Men's Association, enthusiastic about the idea from the first, had helped by endorsing a community auction and turning over all commissions to the talent drive. The four Warrens had used their talents to buy a heifer, which produced a calf for sale. Norman Triplett and Betty Caris had made and sold neckties. Larry Zimmerly had done wonders with his talent by raising rabbits. Altogether, the $2,000 in talents had multiplied...