Word: successively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...informal opening yesterday of the first exhibit by the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art showed a restraint which should do much to ensure the success of the new project. By avoiding the sort of sensationalism which shrieks like a spoiled child for attention, those in charge have insured a tolerant attitude from the more conservative of their patrons without jeopardizing the interest of the more advanced...
Hypersensitive Hedda resents Lovborg's success. Once her lover, he has turned to stupid little Mrs. Elvstead, who discusses him maternally with Hedda. Jealous, Hedda makes Lovborg believe that Mrs. Elvstead has lost faith in him. He gets drunk, loses the manuscript of his second book. When he comes to her, Hedda gives him a pistol and the injunction to use it "beautifully." He uses it, not beautifully, and Hedda soon destroys herself...
...After John Harvard has had 293 years of varying success, six weeks of apple sauce bid fair to leave him with nothing but a pair of pants and a coat of copper nitrate. And now that tradition has been blackjacked and thrown into a corner, these innovators are licensed to peddle their synthetic culture to the universities, colleges and preparatory schools...
...possibly the greatest of modern English language novelists and possibly greater than that. A victorian in "The American" but a contemporary modern (and a model impossible to copy) in "The Golden Bowl" and the "Wings of the Dove"! All modern English writers have copied him and aped him without success. The which has made many of them damn him! After him come Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf. And possibly, too, Marcel Proust, as great but in a limited sphere and another tongue...
This is no story of dollar-success and dollar-education in the United States, but an intellectual and psychological change in a man's point of view. The transformation is wrought by experience and contacts in a new world...