Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Andrew Johnson was facing impeachment charges after the Civil War, Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville...
...began as an actor of elderly character roles. Otto Brahm, Berlin impressario, offered the youth a bril liant opportunity to play in the German capital. When the time drew near for him to leave, Reinhardt regretted his acceptance, begged to be excused from the enticements of "an uncertain career" in the great city. But Herr Brahm stood adamant on his contract rights and the young man was obliged to break away from his enchanted Salzburg...
...York's Tammany sent Publisher Hearst to Congress, and he served through the 58th and 59th sessions. His record there was notable for his poor attendance. When he left Congress his career as a public officeholder stopped short...
...Moses began his career at the age of 11, driving mules for $1.75 a day. He is a resident of Danville...
Lately this "greatest golfer the world ever saw," assisted by a news scribe who long ago made the Jones career his own, has found time to write an autobiography.* The book reads as though Rob Jones had dropped in after Sunday supper on his good neighbors, the U. S. public, and fallen to swapping reminiscences, informally, naturally, letting himself be drawn out but not without deprecations such as, "Oh, I don't know about that, now," and confessions like, "I was cocky, all right...