Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe, without conceit, that I know more about political history than he will ever know. I do know that I would not be so profoundly interested in Gov. Smith's success if I had not known him intimately 25 years, and if I did not know that he is the cleanest, most loyal man in politics today...
...latest difficulty has been with aluminum furniture. Furniture makers, materially conservative, refused to listen to Aluminum Co. technicians. Sheet metal fabricators might be shouting success about their metal office and home furniture. But the public really wanted wood, declared the furniture men. So Aluminum Co. simply went into furniture manufacture. First products to be exploited are office chairs-"easy chair comfort when you need it most." The material (upholstered) is as stout as mild steel and much lighter. The chairs, and other furniture already on sale, are coated in the exact grain of wood-mahogany, walnut, oak. When professional furniture...
...conscience is at rest. . . . Everything was done to insure the success of the expedition...
...boomerang plane Marszalek Pilsudski scorned safety. The Poles anticipated nothing but success.* They relied on a single motor and carried no radio equipment...
...Setting down in slang the petty thought and emotion of lower-class America, John Weaver's verse, "In America" was a success. His success was partly due to simple spelling (Milt Gross's anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant...