Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test their qualities of ingenuity and industry, of stamina and adaptability. A university graduate may feel that he has a right to expect of his university that it equip him to step at once into a profitable position, but this view over-looks the contraption, necessary to any successful career, which the individual alone can make...
There is little to say of Colonel Coolidge, save that he was a man of affairs in a tiny Vermont village. He was born on March 31, 1845, schooled in the neighborhood at the same schools his son later attended. He began his career as a wheelwright, then he rented the general store. At 27 he was elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster...
This is a volume of exploits, explanations and ego. It is Benvenuto Cellini, reincarnated as a Scotch-American jack of all tricks and trades including newspaper cartooning, reminiscing at spry 65 over a career that began in the horsecar period. It brings in, with insouciant yet convincing familiarity, more famous names from all rosters of life than (perhaps) any other book ever published in the U. S. Its purpose is not to be historical, but since an age of arrogance is chronicled by one of its most superb exemplars, history is served with unwonted solicitude...
...Brandy drinking Frenchwoman"-"the dissipated Frenchmen" vs. "the clean living American." You are brazen. Suzanne has a sharp tongue and personally I do not like her ways. However her whole career was at stake in meeting Helen−small wonder that the temperamental Frenchwoman required a stimulant for her nerves. I am convinced that the French stars could not have reached their heights had they dissipated nor be more at home at a cafe table. If so, our examples of fine American manhood are not so clever, for the French beat them with a great handicap...
...facts of President Eliot's eventful career are well-known, but a new and interesting one was made public recently in the publication of the Letters of Colonel E. M. House. One of these letters told of President Wilson's offering to President Eliot the post of ambassador to China in 1912. It was known that President Eliot had declined offers from both Taft and Wilson, who wished to appoint him ambassador to the Court of St. James'; but the story of his rejection of the Chinese post is entirely...