Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
Capt. Hartley, S. S. Leviathan: "On the roughest passage of my ship's career, to Cherbourg last week, a white owl took refuge in a funnel on the ship, 1,000 miles from Newfoundland. I shall present it to the Bronx Zoo. The S. S. American Trader the same week picked up a white owl 600 miles at sea, and will adopt it as mascot. The coast of Maine has lately reported large numbers of white owls landing there, evidently driven by starvation from Arctic regions...
...paintings at the Bernheim Galleries in Paris. I said I was nervous about the attitude of the critics, although Winston Churchill, Britain's finance minister, who is also a painter, would not have been. I have been devoted to painting since childhood, but my mother discouraged that career for me, and I went into finance and politics...
...from Katya. She was going away, as a mistress. "Don't write to me, my dear love, it is useless!" Mitya shot his brain pan off. The Author. Ivan Bunin, 56, writes with ease and economy. Intimate of the Russian Realists and Symbolists, in all his long writing career he has joined no "school." Russians extol him, but in English have appeared only The Village, in which he flays the grimy mouzhik, Dreams of Chang, which contains the sardonic "The Gentlemen from San Francisco," and this Mitya's Love...
German diplomats who had never heard of Poet Claudel remembered the Paul Claudel who began his career in the French consular service more than a. generation and a half ago (as vice consul at New York) and has served as French Minister to Brazil and Denmark and French Ambassador to Japan...