Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Would Anton Smetona persist in refusing to be King of Lithuania? That was the core of the diplomats' argument, and they recalled his career...
...Career. Anton Smetona, now 53 years of age, is conceded to be one of the greatest Lithuanian patriots of all time. For 20 years he worked for Lithuanian nationalism and independence against the oppression of Tsarist Russia. A diminutive man, dark, with narrow, beady eyes, a stubby goatee spread over his chin and a bushy, drooping moustache hanging orderly from his upper lip, he is an excellent, forceful speaker, sound, indurate, potent...
...that hero's bombast was rivaled only by Emperor Napoleon's bombardment. The film shows Gerard bragging, boasting, swaggering and finally redeeming himself by helping the heroine recover important state papers from the wily Talleyrand. Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier. From that day forth, it is, "I sez to my friend, the Emperor...
...three players broke 80 on the final round. George Duncan, hoping to keep dry, stuffed his plus fours with brown paper, came to the first tee 14 strokes behind the leader, put down his head and played golf through the screaming storm. Displaying the most courageous game of his career, he shot a 74, and with an aggregate of 312, won by one stroke the first Irish Open Golf Championship...
Hundreds of young men are in U. S. law schools for no reason but the old saying, "A little law never hurt a man in business." Last week the outstanding examplar of a very sound old saying that one is, finished his long career -Judge Elbert H. Gary died in Manhattan at 81, the, as yet, unretired board chairman of the largest corporation in the world U. S. steel. He read law in his Uncle Henry's (Colonel Henry Valetted) office at Naperville, Ill., after returning from volunteer service in the Civil...