Word: apprenticeship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high-hearted fair ladies, and a Barriesque unworldliness, Virginia provides romance-weavers with a fabric ready-made. Stephena Cockrell takes heart of grace from this fact and adds another novel to the away-down-south-in-Dixie list. She goes about the task with a directness arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first...
...Times observed with well-meant pomposity: "By the circumstances of their apprenticeship in State politics, most
From such lowly origin he rose through military apprenticeship under Andrew Jackson, six months' law study and admission to the bar, governorship of Texas, championship of the Indians, and national notoriety gained by a brawl with a Senator, to generalship of the Texan army, 800 strong. For Texas had at last revolted against the duplicity of the Mexican government...
Like most of the presidential possibilities, Willis served his political apprenticeship in a law office. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1906, and later sat in the State Assembly for two years. A seat in the House of Representatives held him for two Congresses, when he resigned to succeed James M. Cox as Governor of Ohio. The Senate took him from the Governor's chair, and now a group of Republicans is boosting him as an opponent for Governor Vic Donahey...
...embittered author of this rhyme, like many another ignorant layman who would share his point of view, was totally at fault. The physician, after his long and arduous apprenticeship, receives high wages if he attains competence. The lawyer, the merchant, even the thief, is re- compensed for the lean years of his schooling by large profits in his prime. The clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able...