Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitutional Convention, he started Arizona off on the right foot with a "forward- looking document." President Taft, after ordering the clause on the recall of judges removed, signed the new constitution. Arizona became a state; Mr. Hunt became Governor, forthwith added the recall as an amendment. His career has been both stormy and paradoxical- hated by many, but seldom defeated, silent but aggressive, timid among friends but fearless among enemies, lusty cowpuncher foe of gamblers. Even his mustache is a paradox-once frowsy, now neatly waxed...
...serious play built around the life of Joan of Arc, the critics laughed and settled back to await a Shavian monster, born of satire and nursed with venom. But "St. Joan", when produced, was recognized to be more than an expression of an eccentric personality. In its still short career it has been with the exception of Candida", the most widely praised of Shaw's plays. Now it has brought him one of the few "literary", prizes worth having, its permanency is only sanctified. "A saint," he says in the preface to 'St. Joan', "is a successful martyr." With...
...attempting to do "Beranger" the Club had to overcome more than the usual difficulties; Guitry was the most renowned of contemporary French playwrights; this particular play was widely popular abroad and comparisons were bound to be forthcoming; and, last of all, "Beranger" was a strictly historical comedy, depicting the career of Beranger, the favorite French song writer of the early nineteenth century, and consequently accuracy of detail was demanded. The fact that the production won more favorable notices than any other given by the Club before or since is proof that the task was accomplished with merit...
...evolved a quaint philosophy of reincarnation. After an intolerably unhappy 13th Century, a group of people squirm, reincarnated, into the 17th Century, from there into the 19th Century, from there into the 20th Century, where, at last, matters are so divinely ordered that the heroine can have both a career and a husband with a good job and the right personality. Such a philosophy of transmigration, in short, as might make the Buddha so far forget himself as to grind his teeth in Nirvana. The series of episodes, themselves, are intriguing one-act playlets, little snapshots through the ages, each...
...went back to his Los Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...