Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell you why I joined the Corps in preference to being a Harvard man. First, there is pride of profession. We are proud of the fact that our profession is one of the oldest and the noblest of all. We are proud of the fact that our career is one that deals with the building of men. In the army, men are taken from all parts of the country, from all walks of life. They come largely from the drift, mostly in the raw. From this material of flesh and blood, we build an organization that must...
Weeks started his political career in Newton, being an alderman, in that city from 1900 to 1902. He was mayor for the next two years, and chairman of the Republican state convention...
...King of Wallachia; to contract the alliance is essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive. It looks like tears for the finish until...
...life's picnic. Margaret Lawrence has played roles in which she was far more charming than she is now as Mrs. Anne Whiteman; but, having had the courage to be unattractive, she also has the skill to make herself a nagging monster. The most noteworthy events in the career of Margaret Lawrence have been her returns to the stage; one, in 1918, after several years of leisure; the other last year after a period of diverting the Antipodes...
...orchestra has been formed among undergraduates of the University by several members of the Freshman class and one or two upperclassmen with the authorization of the Employment Bureau. The new organization is to be known as the "Freshman Players", and will start its career with a series of four concerts to be given in each of the four Freshmen met while in the waiting room of the Student Employment Office and discovering a mutual musical experience decided to secure financial aid by the formation of an orchestra...