Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to magazine and newspaper practitioners. Onetime associate editor of Youth's Companion (1901-09), onetime literary editor of the Boston Herald (1913-14), and of the Nation (1922-23), Critic Macy now devotes most of his efforts to writing books. Likewise Critic Brooks, since his brief editorial career (1920-24) on the late, illustrious Freeman...
...that a mother could be who was not your very own. She was a talented woman, fond of books and of a scholarly disposition. I thus had the great good fortune to come under the influence of three good women, a most important element in guiding the career...
...doubt if it is possible for a young man to choose politics as a career. He may go into the diplomatic service as it is now constituted in this country, or into the civil service somewhere as the result of passing an examination, but for the young man to expect to gain a livelihood by holding political office would seem to me to be very undesirable. I should say that he ought to have some business on which he could depend for a living, and as he has an aptitude for it take such part in politics as he finds...
Owing to an enforced return to New York, Mr. Flo Zeigfeld, renowned the-artrical producer, was compelled late last night to cancel his engagement to lecture before the Theatregoers' Club of the University on Friday afternoon, Mr. Zeigfeld was to have described his work and career...
...spite of democratic theories, the advance of culture depends on the few rather than the many. A plan of college admissions looking toward the selection of the leaders at the outset of their career is certainly less wasteful than a system admitting a greater number. With a lack of educational facilities, the universities can not afford to spread their efforts think over a large mass of mediocre material...