Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once married and supplied with funds, Adventurer Zubkov neglected his Princess and began in Berlin a boozily epic career. He playfully but painfully tweaked the noses of tardy waiters. He smashed and exploded bottles of champagne just for the fun of dousing perfect strangers with effervescent golden rain. . . . And very often Alexander Dvorjanin Zubkov roistered with from six to ten ladies of the evening until high noon...
...story of a young Scotchman who has talent, honesty, and courage, but the fatal weakness of indecision. Having failed in love and in his chosen career, he goes to India to retrieve his honor. There, on the Kashmir frontier, he faces his great test and, of course redeems himself in a rather heroic but thoroughly satisfactory fashion...
...career of perpetual paradoxes. He was stoutly opposed to Secession. He freed his own slaves years before the Civil War. Yet he became the outstanding champion of the causes of Secession and Slavery. He was a mild-mannered Southern gentleman, so kind-hearted that he would stoop within battle-fire to restore a fledgling sparrow to its nest. But he achieved international fame in the profession of killing men. He attacked as he retreated, he retreated as he attacked. His strategy made of his opponents' successes Pyrrhic victories, brought him triumph by losing in the art which aims only...
...master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics as a career. Speech-making thereafter became his "relaxation," his theory being that the brain cells he used during business hours could take a rest while his speechmaking cells were active. By his own estimate, he addressed three banquets per week "in the season" for 50 years. It was his practice to skip...
...corruption, however, Senator Walsh made his heavy attacks during the course of his Boston visit. At Symphony Hall he declared that "nothing has been divulged that surpasses in iniquity or touches more vitally the public interest than the shocking venality, laid bare by the Senate, in the official career of Fall, Daugherty and Forbes...