Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third year of German reparations payments. Neutral observers found the report far from "scandalous," but instead meaty with facts, logical. They thought its measured language admirably typical of Mr. Gilbert, 34 but seasoned-a Baptist, a 1912 graduate of Rutgers College* and Harvard Law School, a U. S. Treasury "career man," and so conservative that he maintains a residence m the town of his birth: Bloomfield, N. J. Two Theses. Agent General Gilbert put forward last week in his 131-page printed report, two main theses: 1) That Germany can fulfill her Dawes Plan payments after the present (third) Reparations...
...duty to pay tribute to those whose work has been of untold value to the Mississippi Valley and especially to Herbert Hoover whose powers of organization, engineering and deep interest in humanity have again been manifested in saving more life and property than ever before in his memorable career...
Almost certainly the explanation is that President Coolidge is familiar with the career of General Butler-the career of a fighter who takes trouble by the whiskers. This General Butler literally did when, with only 180 Marines, he was besieged some years ago in a little Nicaraguan town, by a native general with over 2,000 troops. Smedley D. Butler, then a major, went out to parley with the besieging Commander, walked menacingly up to him, seized his long mustachios, poked a pistol into his midriff, and then twisted the Nicaraguan's whiskers until he howled out orders...
...cavalry troop in 1861 but led it into Confederate captivity in 1862. His political fame followed his election as Attorney General of Illinois in 1867. His oratorical prowess became nationally known when he arose to nominate James G. Blaine at the Republican presidential convention of 1876. Thereafter his career became a succession of orations on politics and Tom Paine's brand of godlessness-a succession of vermilion episodes, epigrams, epistles...
...Yale into the A. E. F., out of the A. E. F. into steel mills and a brass factory, out of the fires to the Atlantic Monthly staff is the abrupt sequence of Author Walker's career. He wrote reminiscences under the title Steel. Then he became literary editor of the Independent and wrote this, his first novel...