Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general examinations is more than a mere addition to former duties. Progress does not mean that we hitch our good old pair of trotters to the front bumper of an automobile and so combine the best features of both; and it is equally idle to hope for the success of an educational system which fails to recognize the implications of its forward steps...
...time when the main attraction is about to begin in the big tent. The grace with which he has withdrawn his bid for the attention of seniors at a stage when they may ill afford it should be an example to those more conservative instructors who doggedly maintain that success in the past is ample augury for success in the future...
Short, stocky, chesty Editor Long, radiating success and brisk efficiency, had reason to be pleased; and more, perhaps, than Mr. Coolidge realized. Had not the President said to persistent Editor Long: "Yes, when you pay 35 cents for a magazine, that magazine takes on in your eyes the nature of a book and you treat it accordingly."? Editor Long reproduced this incomparable "blurb" in full page newspaper advertisements...
...musical comedy is seldom written home about. Tourists are either ashamed about it, or don't understand it, or spend their time in the Louvre. One hardly would have expected to see a French revue imported to Broadway and presented in its native tongue with any degree of success. However, it has now been done and the result is far from discouraging. A company managed by J.A. Gauvin began a New York engagement last week with a piece entitled Trois Jeunes Filles Nues, which, for the sake of the censor, was translated as "Three Girls From The Folies Bergere...
...hatrack back home. It is an exceedingly interesting study of the blind arrogance of one of the War's own children in conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence of Spencer Tracy as the hero, and Frank McHugh, whose characterization of a top-sergeant is one of the crack performances of the season. She Got What She Wanted. Evidently on the theory that if the triangle play has been successful the rectangle play should be still...