Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk-tented Bal Tabarin room of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Kiwanians were there assembled last week to celebrate Armistice Day. It was not the one tense moment for the first great political speech of a man's career; neither was the speaker, General John Joseph Pershing, expected to entertain businessmen with anything more than patriotic remarks, dully pronounced...
...Pastor's career has been stormy. A Ku Klux Klan member, he has been tried (and acquitted) for arson, was an aide of William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Evolution trial, has vigorously denounced race tracks, Catholics, other things and persons...
...political and private society in "our somewhat stiff and exclusive city," Boston. He became a mayor of that city, like his father before him and his grandson later, but writing in his age, he found more meat in his youthful journals than in the official acts of his public career. Sunday, Sept. 16, 1821, for instance: "Dr. Porter preached all day. In the evening my father and myself went as usual to [onetime] President Adams's. There we found J. Q. Adams, and my father had a long discussion with the President and his son upon the hopes...
...what curious urges we evolved." Mr. Gorman is careful not to claim that his portrait "is the man," and professes to give nothing more than a picture of the man as he sees him. He is equally modest in disclaiming any attempt to shed new light on Longfellow's career, or to criticize his works in detail. The reason of his book, he explains, is the poet's reprpesentative quality in American letters...
...prospectors of California, we are informed, were fearless and insuperable prevaricators. Also they not infrequently sacrificed their mental balance to the pursuit of gold. Both of these features figure in Blaise Cendrar's "Sutter's Gold." Throughout this tale of Sutter's truly Munchausian career the author in an attempt at sustained tenseness fails to appreciate the differentiation between fact, exaggeration, and fiction. The result is a hodge podge unique, but not altogether barren of interest. The economist might weep over two hundred dollar onions, or choke over a thousand dollar glass of water; the geologist might be alarmed over...