Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, I haven't been recording for Victor long, and don't expect immediate success. Still, my older records were very popular, and I hope the new ones will...
...story is one of back-stage life in which a capable burlesque performs finally gets a break and is starred in the Ziegfield Follies. Here he is a big success until he learns that his wife, whom he had forgotten, is going to divorce him. He then leaves the show and is called a but--but everything comes out alright...
Having overturned the government, good revolutionists dearly love to overturn the calendar. In 1793 French Republicans, flushed with political success, changed the names of all the months from the prosaic January, February, March to the more descriptive Pluviōse (rainy) Ventōse (windy), Germinal (budding), etc. They divided each month into three "weeks" of ten days each, and dated everything from the First day of the Year 1 (Sept. 22, 1792), the date of the proclamation of the first French Republic. The French Republican calendar lasted nearly 15 years, died a natural death during the reign of Napoleon...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was born in 1907 to his father's first wife, Anna Beth Sully, daughter of a soapmaker. He went to various schools in Paris and London, learned to talk good French and heard enough Englishmen talk to fabricate with fair success the English accent he uses in The Careless Age. Partly because his father did not want him to be an actor, he studied sculpture and painting for a while and, like most expensively educated young men, wrote some poetry that was never published. He worked in a few pictures as an extra and showed...
...contest revealed that the University squad possessed a fund of power and promising material, but the sustained drive, so essential for success in the series of hard games which concludes, the schedule, was not in evidence. Intensive drill alone can weld this Harvard machine into a well-coordinated unit capable of realizing its full strength. Only occasionally did the eleven click efficiently and only then could those who saw the clash get an idea of the promise which the aggregation holds for the future...