Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MARCO MILLIONS-An elaborately fantastic satire on the mercenary career of Marco Polo (TIME...
...tutor, and filling of chinks in the field of concentration is thereby hastened. In some cases, as that of the Juniors who will in mid-October take the Bible. Shakespeare and ancient author examinations, the assistance of the tutor at the most critical period of the student's college career is clearly impaired...
...Sunday the House members went to their chamber for Mr. Madden's state funeral, a rare honor that was accorded him. Mrs. Madden took the body for burial to Hinsdale, Ill. So ended the career of an immigrant boy from England who, working in a stone quarry, lost his foot and instead of suing the company rose in it, became president, grew rich, entered politics, stayed honest, gained fame...
Bennett died. Threatened by fate a year ago, when he was hurt testing the ship in which Byrd flew across the Atlantic, he was finally struck down. He who had survived the terrors of a flight over the North Pole in 1926, succumbed at the prime of his flying career, at 38. He who was to go with Byrd to the Antarctic this year died in Jeffrey Hale Hospital, Quebec, despite all that science and medicine could...
...Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy, out of her snobbishness, loathed it, and was grateful to Daphne for forgetting it among their well-bred friends...