Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publication when the thesis has been published in whole or in part, and the present occupation of official position of the author. When the man is no longer living his last official position and the year of his death are given and sometimes additional facts in regard to his career...
...Council member is of the firm of McFadden, Sands and Company, Boston cotton merchants, and at the time of his graduation was First Marshal of his class. During the last two years of his undergraduate career Lawrence played on the football team as well as rowing on the University eight. The wide interest in Harvard affairs which he has held since his graduation is shown in the fact that he is a director of the Harvard Alumni Association, and last year at the time of his twenty-fifth reunion, he was chief marshal at commencement...
...began to see visions and to hear angel voices. In church she became ecstatic, ran up and down the aisles, clapped her hands, shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord!" At length, convinced of her "mission," she set out to crusade against the Demon Rum. Then began her saloon-smashing career. Almost six feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, she would stride through the swinging doors of Kansas saloons* smash windows, mirrors, bottles, glasses; upbraid bartenders and patrons. In a Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult...
...Senator had told Mr. Sullivan that no other influence had molded his (the Senator's) character and career so power fully as McGuffey's. Mr. Sullivan ventured to say that many of the Senator's 95 colleagues would feel the same way if quizzed...
William Allen White ( editor of the Emporia [Kan.] Gazette, prolific commentator on life and literature) told the New York Herald Tribune the turning point in his career. It came, he said, when he was a "smart aleck . . . infant prodigy," aged 24, on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star. He was clowning, being loud, disorderly with three drinks under his belt, when a brown-eyed girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale...