Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MEMORIES-The Rt. Hon. Viscount Long of Wraxall-Button ($7.50). Lord Long, better known in Britain as Walter Long, comes from a class that is known as the "landed gentry." In this book he reviews his career from the nursery floor to the floor of the House of Commons, which he not so many years ago left for the House of Lords. His career is not particularly interesting for the simple reason that Long is not a particularly interesting man; but his incidental descriptions of human society during the Victorian and Edwardian ages are full of point and show with...
...writer whose prolific brain can evolve and depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind, to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle. This rare being was none other than Richard E. Enright, Police Commissioner of New York City, a man whose "own career demonstrates that men are much like milk-'the cream comes to the top.'" Young and ambitious, Enright began as a railway telegraph operator, became "just a cop" in Manhattan, was "the first and only man in the entire police history of the world" to rise from "the bottom...
Hanover, N. H., Sept. 25.--The Dartmouth football season opened Monday, September 15, when a squad of more than 100 men reported to Coach Jess Hawley, who is starting his second year at the head of the Green coaching staff. Coach Hawley started his coaching career at Andover Academy, going from there to the University of Iowa for several years. In 1919 he was assistant under Coach Spears at Dartmouth, and the following year was one of Coach Roper's aids at Princeton. In 1921, and 1922 Hawley was a member of the Advisory Coaching Staff at Dartmouth...
Blease began his career at the State University. He won a gold medal in an oratorical contest in which he spoke on the life of Robert E. Lee. He was then charged with having plagiarized part of his remarks; and the gold medal was taken back. He was expelled from the scholarly precincts. But his friends gave him a gold watch-chain and elected him to the Legislature...
President Tsao Kun, Tuchun of Chihli, all of which is now over-lorded by Wu, is one of the Chinese wonders. Bordering upon 60 years of age, most of his career was necessarily made during the Manchu regime. It was, and still is, considered a marvel that Tsao, once a lowly coolie, should have risen to the power and riches (he is said to be worth about $40,000,000) that...