Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foshay, born in Ossining, N. Y., started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His career, however, did not start until the day he walked into Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities...
...there was no Borger, Tex. Then from deep-driven pipes in Hutchinson County spurted oil. Today Borger is a city of 10,000, county seat of Hutchinson, a slovenly clutter sprawling over the prairie with a main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters...
Both are young, personable, Roman Catholic. Many an inspired despatch has linked their names, praised her 'cello playing, his dexterity at the wheel of a roaring motor, her welfare work among Belgian babies, his dashing career as an Italian colonel. She met him first in Rome when she was only eleven, while spike-helmeted Germans were trampling her own Brussels. Last week he came with a suite of 31 Italian nobles to seek her hand. Only a bullet was needed to make completely romantic the engagement, officially proclaimed at Brussels, of Marie Jose, third child and only daughter...
After weeks of standing on street corners and long periods of being marooned in the center of a passing stream of automobiles. The Vagabond determined to revolt against the traffic system which so formidably threatens his career, nay his very existence. Unfortunately a call on Mayor Quinn was discouraged by the presence of two large police dogs. There was nothing left for the traveling scholar to do but gather the necessary data and prove to his readers that automobiles in Harvard Square are a menace to all true students--a danger to life and a waster of time at street...
Famous men guided the Review on its iconoclastic career. Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, once the magazine's star reviewer, was known as "chief executioner." Essayist William Hazlitt, Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, Prophet Thomas Carlyle, Novelist Walter Scott were contributors...