Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college training at the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in 1891. He then turned to editorial work and used the famous blue pencil in such offices as those of The Woman's Home Companion and The Literary Digest. With such editorial apprenticeship, he was able to become a poetic journalist with great facility and success, without losing any of his pristine talents. His rhymed reviews in Life have charmed for years. It is a hard enough task to be a reviewer of books for several years; but to be a rhymed reviewer...
...Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, where he heard Gaelic and faery lore. His college learning he got at Dublin, Paris and Leipzig. In 1911, he began an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo, few guessed his genius. Lately Changeling, The Wind Bloweth and Blind Raftery have marked him as of the high company of true romanticists...
...infants, she went into politics, especially woman suffrage. The four LaFollette children apparently have specialized in their parents' several talents. Robert M. Jr. is his father's junior partner in politics. Philip is carrying on in his father's shoes as a lawyer. Fola, after an apprenticeship in the woman suffrage movement, went on the stage, played ingenue parts with Ada Rehan, played with Leo Ditrichstein, and then suddenly left the stage to marry playwright George Middleton. The youngest, Mary, studied...
...biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall, to "but in" on their behalf as he had not done during the apprenticeship of his brief ad interim term...
...gift of $5,000,000 to Harvard University by Mr. George F. Baker of New York for the construction of new buildings for the Graduate School of Business Administration is as distinctive in the annals of American education as are the efforts of the School itself. After an apprenticeship of sixteen years, during which the Harvard Business School has been an outstanding influence in business education, it has been accorded recognition by one of the country's foremost business men. It has passed its most difficult test, and has become the subject of an enlightened interest, not only because...