Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leader of this movement; he possessed great ambition; at the height of his power his organization (The International Negro Improvement Association) numbered 4,000,000 members; lie was President of the Black Star Line Company, which aimed to run ships to Africa and the West Indies from America; his career led him to great power, which he preferred to exercise for his own aggrandizement, and thus defrauded and discredited the legitimate activities of the people he pretended to serve...
...merits of grand opera and vaudeville. After detailing Burke's former operatic successes at Covent Garden and " the principal European capitals,"he asserts: "The Palace opening, far from being regarded as a ' comedown ' may be regarded as the climax to the handsome young Irishman's career. . . . Covent Garden is some shucks over there, but the Palace is a more important theatre, for it is the high peak of an avenue of art that radiates over the whole world, while opera is a narrow, limited, circumscribed old patch, like one of the Balkan States...
ECHO?Margaret Rivers Larminie ?Putnam ($2.00). Well written revamping of the same old triangle, and the problem as to whether a single miscue should ruin a woman's career. For some reason takes its place with the horde of "competent" novels of the present?neither good enough to shout about or bad enough to damn?capable workmanship in evidence throughout, but the product tastes lukewarm...
Papers-for-People-Who-Think published her " signed story detailing her amazing career," her " first romance," her conviction, and her still more astonishing escape, her wanderings in foreign lands and her recapture in Honduras " through the efforts of the Hearst newspapers." . . . The story will continue, presumes the blurb, "from day to day until the whole startling narrative ends with the clanging of the prison doors behind her in San Quentin prison...
...Baldwin. Stanley Baldwin is a man of 55 years of age. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained honors in mathematics. He then became immersed in business and succeeded his father, Alfred Baldwin, as chief partner of Baldwins Ltd., an iron foundry. His political career commenced in 1908 when he was elected to Parliament for the Bewdley division of Worcestershire. It was not until 1917 that he attained any degree of political prominence. In this year he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, retaining that position until 1921, when he became Secretary...