Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take no false vanity in the accident of her unblemished features, but besides preferring to the worldly career they might have brought her the career of service which she brought herself, she disliked talking about silver dollars and dismissed her posing as "an incident of my youth...
...prepared as industriously and intelligently for their debuts as Mr. Melchior. If they had, there might be here a different story to tell of the debuts of Miss Lewis and Miss Talley?Miss Lewis whose voice is not under any circumstances an important one for an operatic career; Miss Talley, with a better vocal equipment, but needing greatly long periods of quiet, concentrated study to eliminate serious vocal difficulties and find herself as an artist. Both young women were given publicity beyond their merits. Both of them went on the Metropolitan stage pursued by reputations manufactured in advance, and neither...
When she could make herself heard, Raquel Meller began her U. S. career with a simple Spanish folksong, a song which might be the distant Castilian cousin of "Old Black Joe." It was so simple, so undemonstrative, that the connoisseurs after listening intently were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which...
...editor of the Manhattan Social Register marked for deletion from that compendium last week the name of Mr. McEvers Bayard Brown, a descendant of the 16th mayor of New York, Nicholas Bayard. Death had brought to an end the career of perhaps the only man who ever lived on a seagoing yacht for 36 years, with steam up day and night, yet never sailed away...
...Author. William Christian Bullitt is a 35-year-old Philadelphian who, after a brilliant career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor...