Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, it became known that Charles Sumner Hamlin, able governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is completing the 163rd volume of scrapbooks of clippings which he has assiduously compiled for the past 40 years with the perspicacity which has characterized his career. These clippings are excerpts from various newspapers and magazines and cover finances, politics, economic questions and the like...
...study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady of Renaissance Italy so fair and mettlesome as this Valeria but was meshed in intrigue from her dainty toes to her pearl-sewn caul. And no stalwart like lucky Bellarion but would have rejoiced as he to exchange a philosophical career for swordplay in her service. This swordplay, these daggers by night and poisoned wine-goblets; a Milanese tyrant blood-hounding men for sport; a hundred delicate situations saved by Macchiavelian wit or pretty compliments; and Bellarion, "half god, half beast," rising to power and at last claiming the lady-these...
...been popular with the New Yorkers no matter where he was born. Smooth-faced, graying a little, just 50, his personality is of the kind that makes trade organs like the Fourth Estate lay it on thick about "integrity," "ideals," "sincerity," "inspiring confidence and loyalty" in explaining his "romantic" career. For three years he has been fighting Publisher Hearst over an Associated Press franchise in Rochester, and though victory is not yet with him, the Southern Tier is stronger than ever for "Spunky Frank" Gannett. Last June, Cornell elected him a trustee...
...General's" career was unprecedented, surpassed the triumphs of modern cinema idols. No screen sheik from Rudolph Valentino down can truthfully boast, as did Midget Thumb: "I have kissed nearly two million ladies, including the Queens of England, France, Belgium and Spain...
...business man. Once, instead of going around the world with his wife, he became Chicago agent for a fidelity insurance company. It was a good job. Now he employs 200 persons, and earns from $50,000 to $60,000 a year. Mr. Brennan likes to talk of his business career; it proves his independence, he says...