Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sigh, M. Briand quitted the scene of his greatest triumph; rushed home to Paris where his newly formed Government (TIME, Dec. 7) has none too many friends. Within a few short hours he was engaged in fighting what he himself described as the most desperate battle of his political career...
...play was translated from an old French manuscript, and the year before an ancient English version was given, dating from the thirteenth century. This play is really a Christmas mystery play, one of the earliest types of drama. A miracle play is properly a drama dealing with the career of some saint...
Pompey fell with a great crash and was executed by his treacherous freedman. Napoleon ate his heart out in solitude at St. Helenn. Charles I went to his death after a revolution. William II's career stopped as dramatically as any of these; why has he not suffered a similar fate? It may be that the fates are too busy to pursue a man his size. The lot of an arrogant country gentleman seems to fit him better than that of the most powerful monarch of his time...
...historical plays: Abraham Lincoln. Mary Stuart, Robert E. Lee. Besides these he has written Oliver Cromwell and now Robert Burns. His earlier plays were in verse, and he has in addition several volumes of poems. Today, only 43 years old, he seems to be at the height of his career...
Mitchell started his baseball career as a pitcher with the Lawrence Club of the New England League in 1897. Later he played with both the Boston American team and the Philadelphia Nationals. He was later released to Toronto and it was while with this club that he discovered that his natural talent lay in catching rather than in hulling...