Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creation of a legend. He is remote; he is powerful; he is-to the anti-monopolist- sinister. Yet Herr Kreuger has not consciously made himself a Mystery Man and no great secret have been the facts of his personal or corporate life. Simplest division of his adult career would be threefold -a Wanderjahre period, a period of building construction in Sweden, and the present match period. The Wander-years (they numbered seven) included the U. S., Mexico, England, South Africa, India, Canada, were spent chiefly in the erection of tall buildings. Such famed Manhattan structures as the Flatiron Building...
...attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some $65,000, which, being bankrupt, she sorely needed...
Because of her relations with a sinuous foreigner. Julius Beaufort, she is the center of gossip. Love again comes into her life in the person of Newland Archer, rising young politician, who is already married to her cousin. However, she scarifies herself for the sake of her lover's career and the scenes leading up to the renunciation have dramatic power that Miss Cornell utilizes to the full...
Fritzi Scheff's fortunes have varied too. Good comic operas have been scarce since the days of Victor Herbert. Tales of temperament have frightened some managers. She has been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn at legitimate dramatics. The brilliant career of a captivating person might thus have tapered away into nothing had it not been for last week's revival. Now, due to its success, Modiste may go on tour again...
Faintly reminiscent of the clinical casebooks of Freud and Stekel are these ten compact novels, no longer than short stories, written at various times in Schnitzler's career, now translated into English for the first time...