Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dubious Democrat has mumbled gravely, "I am a Democrat," when asked if he would bolt Nominee Smith. Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Democrat, visited Hoover headquarters in Manhattan last week and announced distinctly: "I am in favor of Herbert Hoover." Then he read a long, prepared laudation of the Hoover career and character. He was asked if he felt, as a Democrat, that he could not stand for Nominee Smith. "I won't stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned...
...Inner Temple. But just when he might have been admitted to the British bar he suddenly chose the cloth for the gown. His father was one of the moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. † The son preferred the more hierarchal Church of England for his career. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford (after a period at Glasgow University) had something to do with his decision. By 1901 he had become Bishop of Stepney and Canon of St. Paul's, London, and used to work with the grubby, grimy poor. In 1907, Edward VII offered him the Bishopric...
...When Ellen Terry was twice as old she married the then famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith. Oscar Wilde reviewed her performance as Ophelia and was inspired to speak of "in finite powers of pathos . . . her imaginative and creative faculty. . . ." and of the whole as "a masterpiece of good acting...
...David Starr Jordan (since 1916 president-emeritus), were surrounded and succeeded by run-of-the-mill instructors. Classics receded before technical subjects to the point where, for example, courses in art are now open only to students requiring such knowledge as the utilitarian equipment of a teaching career...
...master's teachings and healings. This early, happy part of Jesus's life Ludwig presents in glowing contrast to the last tragic months of proud ambition, and violent vituperation of the priesthood, which inevitably led to his failure and crucifixion. In diagnosing Napoleon's career, and Bismarck's, Ludwig traced ascent to fame through youthful virility and brilliant ability, to anticlimax due to pride and hasty resentment. Perhaps something of habit has influenced him to a similar interpretation of Jesus's meteoric career, or perhaps from his viewpoint as a Jew he can but recognize...