Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman who has been regarded as the embodiment of the aggressively virtuous. Her very humanity has been squeezed from her by her admirers. Mr. Dibble means to change all that. He tries to show the irrepressible naughtiness underlying the intolerable perfection. She is interesting for two reasons: her career marks "the definite entrance of woman into the field of political and moral reform"; and "she was a woman who led an unusually rich and varied existence...
Whatever happens, British politics will continue to career about in a vicious circle until another, and probably not far-distant, general election restores some semblance of rectangular solidity in the House of Commons. Until that time, whichever party holds the reins of the stately old Government coach, that worthy vehicle will continue to circle an eccentric perimeter, despite the efforts of the Cabinet driver to go straight ahead...
Lord Alfred Douglas. Lord Alfred's evidence dealt principally with his career as an editor. It was brought out, however, that he was an undischarged bankrupt. On being asked to leave the witness box, he burst forth: "I consider that I have been treated in a most grossly unfair way. I have not been allowed to put my case at all. I have not been able to tell why I wrote the articles and where I got the information from. It is the most abominable piece of unfairness I have ever seen in my life...
...epic of world wanderings and a career in journalism came to an end with the death of John Revelstoke Rathom, at the age of 55. He was born on July 4, 1868, in Australia, and after many wayfarings died in Rhode Island...
...plane so stabilized by the Sperry automatic pilot, that a mechanic walked out on the wing while the pilot left the machine entirely to its own control. The first man to loop a hydroplane, the first to instal a radio set in an airplane, he was carving a brilliant career as a designer and builder of aircraft. His Messenger (a tiny single seater) came into most general use in the Army Air Service. Sperry used it to commute between his home and factory on Long Island. On a recent visit to England, his electioneering by plane for Lloyd George attracted...