Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Lawyer Steuer: "Harry Daugherty -yesterday, sought after by all the land; today, hounded; a broken old man; his life spent; his best friend, the President, dead; his close friend Jess Smith, gone, a suicide ; his wife gone; his political career over. He went to the 'shack,' and those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. So this lonesome old man, alone with those records, destroyed them...
Famous figures and events are told about with all the intimacy that is required in such a book. Barrymore's consistently distinguished family, Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, appear as perplexed spectators of the author's checkered career. What happened to this distinguished actor stranded in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake (or fire if you prefer), when people turning over for a last snooze before breakfast found themselves exposed to the startled public view and sliding pajamaed into the street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey...
...antique Britishers, what time she snares Henry Spoffard, a Presbyterian playboy from Philadelphia with millions to be diverted from moral uplift to Mr. Cartier's jewelry store. She winds up in Manhattan having a three-day debut party with boys from the Racquet Club, simultaneously arranging her cinema career and marriage with Saphead Spoffard...
...legislature of South Carolina, and fought in the Indian War of 1836. His great-grandfather came to the colonies from Dublin when he was a child and lived to command a regiment in the Revolution. Asa Griggs Candler, born too late for Indians and Redcoats, began his business career in the drugstore of Best & Kirkpatrick in Carters- ville. Ga. He had almost no money. His family was indifferent to money. Let a man be honest-shrewdness was unnecessary. It was about 1887 that he sold in his store (he had started a little dispensary of his own in Atlanta...
...written a book most of which is as beautiful as the eyes of Adrienne, clear as the amber of her mother's eyes, rich as the "wine-dark sea" of her father's. The John Day Company (TIME, Sept. 20) has begun its publishing career with a brilliant novel...