Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yard dash; second, Captain Haggerty's double victories in the mile and the 1000-yard run; and third, the record-breaking heave of C. A. Pratt '28 who, urged on by the apparently unsurpassable toss of Anderson of Cornell, rose to the supreme effort of his career and with a put of 42 feet two and three-fourths inches nosed out the Ithacan by one half an inch to establish a new meet record...
...wishing to re-establish a reputation as a gentleman-farmer and honest man, has announced his willingness to tell everything. Should Governor Jackson be hustled off to jail, people are wondering what kind of a governor Prosecutor Remy would make. Some also wonder whether he could end the Senatorial career of James E. Watson by succeeding...
South Sea Love. Thus the plot begins: a young girl, ambitious for a career, says good-by to her best beloved. He will go to the South Seas, find some pearls, sell them and use the money to launch her as an actress. Soon after the departure of her inamorata, the lady herself makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas...
...when I was in Vienna, all dances and theatre performances were called off. The only thing that continued was the opera, and if we sought amusement that was where we had to go. I went every night, and that is when I developed the taste for my career. But it was not until I saw a performance of "Tristan and Isolde" that something absolutely changed in me and showed me my way in life. That was when 1 was 16. Since then I have folowed my present career systematically, studying in Vienna most of the time. Four years...
...whether a college education was any help to a man choosing a theatrical career. Mr. Hodge did not seem so sure. "Of course," he admitted, "a man must master the English language, and college offers him that and other opportunities. But the greatest possibilities are in men themselves. I myself was born poor, have been one of the people and know and love them and that I think is the reason for my success...