Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reactionary. But, in the main, its reception was favorable. It came forward strongly for tax reduction, for economy; it advocated restricted immigration and, in one brief sentence, tersely gave the President's adverse opinion of a soldier bonus. It put Mr. Coolidge into a new stage of his career. At first, he was considered "safe" because he was as Mr. Harding. With this message he won confidence by his individual attitude...
...have a wish to impart something of it to others. The other day I discovered two things about this exceedingly popular novelist that I had not realized before: first, that like Robert W. Chambers, Robert Cortes Holliday, W. B. Maxwell and many other writers, he started his artistic career drawing rather than writing and then discovered his aptitude lay in the telling of stories. Perhaps this explains why he has always preferred to dwell more on intimate character sketches of Cape Cod folk rather than to bother too greatly with plot. He sees his quaint people whole and puts them...
...must to all men, Death came to James Berwick Forgan, in the 73rd year of his life and the 24th of his career as the outstanding figure of the Chicago banking fraternity. Stricken at his desk with heart disease, he was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, where a transfusion of his son's blood (James B. Forgan, Jr.) rallied him momentarily but was ultimately unsuccessful in saving his life. He died sur rounded by his family, after singing favorite hymns with his pastor and saying : "I have put up the best fight I could." Forgan...
Percy Haughton introduced countless innovations into the game which he loved, played and coached so well. One of the first of them was the "specialist". Hardly had he begun the career that was to lead him to fame when he startled the football world with a dramatic inspiration that gave the University a victory over Yale. To have a specialist ready for the crucial moment in a game when he would be most needed was an unheard of innovation. But when Kennard was rushed into the Yale game in 1908 to kick the winning points through a goal from...
...meeting of the Freshman Cross Country Squad yesterday afternoon. Albert Henry O'Neill of Jamaica Plains was chosen captain of the 1928 Cross Country team. O'Neil, who prepared at Exeter, where he was the Track captain, has had a remarkable career. He succeeded of the Harvard Interscholastic Meet last spring, which was formerly held by W. J. Bingham '16. O'Neil has also excelled in the Freshmen cross country runs this fall, winning first place against Arlington High, and the Dartmouth and M. I. T. Freshmen teams...