Word: apprenticeships
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...apprenticeship in his father's piano factory in LeMans, France, several years' work with Chickering in Boston, and with Gaveau in Paris taught Arnold Dolmetsch how to make instruments. This knowledge he passed on to his wife, his daughters, Cecile and Natalie, his sons, Rudolph and Carl. Nights the Dolmetsches get together in their little cluttered home in Haslemere, play antique music on antique instruments or their replicas...
...Thomas Sigismund Stribling has never wandered far from his spiritual home. Tall, baldish, professorial-looking, with a prognathous but benevolent jaw, he started out to be a schoolteacher, failed as a disciplinarian. Though he looks like a bachelor he is married. Familiar with hackwriting, he served a long apprenticeship turning out Sunday School stories, detectification, melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over the Columbia network. Author Stribling is enthusiastic over...
...Japanese consulate in Seoul, Korea, coached him for a second try at the examinations. Koki Hirota's chief in Korea was young Katsuji Debuchi, lately Ambassador to Washington. The two have been fast friends ever since. After finally passing his examinations Koki Hirota spent a plodding apprenticeship in the Foreign Office, first in Peiking. later London, and Russia. After the War he served at the Embassy in Washington, returned to Tokyo in 1921 and was made Minister to The Hague in 1927 where for the first time he earned a little leisure. All his life he had been...
...first worked as a roller in a steel mill. He quit that job, went West. There legend records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs, St. Louis and Memphis tracks he branched out on his own in Chicago during the old World's Fair...
...feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever and for whatever he could. With his first profits he rescued his family from the poorhouse...