Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister Paul Painleve said before the Senate Military Committee in answer to a question: "I cannot deny that the War Ministry holds General Michaud sufficiently responsible for the wiping out of the column under his command in Syria last year, to have withheld from this officer promotions which his career would otherwise have dictated...
Toto's popularity is due, in part, to the fact that during his entire stage career, he has never been known to utter a word on the stage. "I can entertain an audience for one hour without speaking a word," said Toto, "and keep them interested and laughing all of the time. If I should speak on the stage now, 1 would soon lose my audience. My pantomime is my success...
...ladies, for example, tour France with a charming philanderer. They find him out in time to save their friendship and in a manner that saves their self-respect. Yet just before the climax, tragedy impends. In another story, the mother of a grown dolt launches him on a literary career by publishing her own work under his name. The son's character does not change, but the mother is much happier. Again: A dullish Mr. Mellish, given to heroine-worship, is taught his wife's heroism. An over-intense beauty kills two husbands with her love and ambition...
Like an ivory chessman smashed by a petulant master the career of a young Spanish politician snapped in two last week, when Dictator General Primo de Rivera demanded his resignation and received it in a loosely oval hand...
...Harmon, 81, elder counselor of the Democratic Party in Ohio, onetime (1895-97) U. S. Attorney General, twice (1909-11 and 1911-13) Governor of Ohio, 1904 and 1912 Presidential possibility; in Cincinnati; from uremic poisoning, after a brief illness. Starting as a lawyer, he enjoyed a versatile, meteoric career of public service. As judge of the Ohio Superior Court, he was succeeded in 1887 by William H. Taft. While governor of Ohio he consistently exposed political graft, regardless of party affiliations, and was re-elected with a plurality of 100,000 his second term, defeating Warren G. Harding. Although...