Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with as little prospect of success." Her family's savory reputation left her little choice of a career. Her mother was the town scandal, and a boom had scraped her no-account father off his boat into the harbor of Newport and eternity. So Betty trafficked her only wealth-her beauty- wherever a likely purchaser appeared, and rose through a succession of what one might euphemistically term "protectors...
Throughout the black squares in Betty's checquered career, she had always, paradoxically, the urge to be "respectable." Though she got no further than the urge, she has graciously left us the record of a colorful ascent, blazing her trail through stiff-necked, whale-oil Providence, through outwardly outraged but inwardly envious New York, through the magnificently indifferent French Imperial Court. She knew the horrors and cruelty of the French Revolution and the chaos of the subsequent Restoration; she mingled with French Royalty, later owned the sapphire coronet Napoleon had placed on Josephine's head and the emerald...
...journeys thither of troupes of the gentility, some driving up from as far as Virginia, their black slaves making camp by the roadside by night and lighting the darkness with their campfires and the mournful, exotic cadences of their African songs. All this, as background to the career of one lovely lady who was at once a termagant and a belle, an alluring little vixen and an unconscionable idiot...
...Frenchman. In addition to a few other records, he has the reputation of being one of the Army's most reliable test pilots, who can take up a new ship and come down and tell designers exactly what's wrong and what should be changed. This wonderful career is not an accident. Macready is a most pertinent example of mens sana in corpore sano. An amateur boxing champion, five foot six in height, he weighs only about 130 pounds, has broad shoulders and a trim waist. He keeps himself in perfect condition, is always mentally and physically alert...
...pilot desert his plane too early, without the final effort to save it. There is not the slightest argument in favor of these points-of-view. Skillful as Macready is, the failure of his engine at dead of night would certainly have meant a termination of his valuable career if not for the huge, umbrella-like parachute. Jumping from a plane is sufficiently hazardous, and calls for real nerve, and none of the men who fly these ships should be deprived of this last resort or fail to practice for the awful moment when they must jump. Whether passengers...