Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deeply appreciate your very kind expressions and are glad to state that we are meeting with wonderful success. Members are coming in daily, glad for a chance to receive their long delayed, political justice...
...success of the Democratic Party in the State of New York lies in the fact that it has had a clearcut and definite program...
...until eleven years later, after he had given promise of success in this profession, did Thomas Hardy write his first novel, The Poor Man and The Lady. This fell into the hands of an intelligent publisher's reader, the later famed George Meredith, who returned it promptly because it lacked plot. Desperate Remedies desperately remedied this defect, but supplanted it with many others. Under the Greenwood Tree attracted more favorable notice, and in 1874 the Cornhill Magazine published anonymously Far from the Madding Crowd. Its enormous success was in part due to the fact that many painfully unobservant readers...
...back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils and a wife who died a year later, leaving him a paralyzed son. He went to Vienna. Teaching tormented him. He turned pupil himself again, studied two years with Leschetizky, practiced eighteen hours a day. Success, fame, immortality loomed...
...Many gifted musicians have failed to attain more than mediocre success because they were unwilling to sacrifice time and energy to the development of their talents. Work is essential," she said. "Those imbued with musical talent too often do not realize that their inherent abilities will not be of any use or pleasure to the world unless, with work and sacrifice, they do all in their power to develop them...