Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. At the age of 18, Otis A. Skinner broached his plans for a stage career to his conservative clergyman father and his artistic mother. They laughed heartily. They could not foresee this awkward youth of bad diction and poor carriage as anything but ludicrous behind the footlights' all-revealing glare. Nevertheless, young Otis was sent to a friend of the family, who gave the youth a noncommittal letter, running as follows...
...than it read when published recently in the American Mercury, but it maundered gloomily through scenes wherein a Negro of no great ability married a white girl, then discovered that he was so far above her in mental calibre that it hurt. His aspirations to ward a lawyer's career came between them, and in the end he renounced them to devote himself to caring for her ? whereupon she kissed his hands-Robeson, a Negro of exceptional scholastic and athletic prowess while at Rutgers, played the black man; Mary Blair, the white girl...
Heywood Broun: "... Before the play ends she is stark raving mad. So instead of the problem of white and black, we have the problem of sane and insane ... In the uneven career of Eugene O'Neill I think All God's Chillun will rank as one of the down strokes...
Robert Underwood Johnson is one of those many-sided men of ' whom the 19th Century was so prodigal. Poet, editor, author, executive, patriot, diplomat: the record of his achievements consumes more space in Who's Who in America than that of any other man, and suggests a varied career that has never brought him entirely into the limelight, or into the twilight of mediocrity...
...Stanley Bagg Pennock Scholarship, the stipend of which is $300, given since 1917 by Mr. John D. Pennock in memory of his son, Stanley Begg Pennock, A.B. 1915, is awarded to a Senior, recommended by the Division of Chemistry, who specializes in Chemistry and intends to follow a classical career. Applications for this scholarship in the year 1924-25 should be made in writing by juniors to Professor G. P. Baxter, Coolidge Memorial Laboratory, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts, before June...