Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Van Duzer Lawrence, 84, retired Manhattan drug and hotel man, last month read a magazine article which enhanced a major apprehension of his thoughtful age. Young women of intellect, college women (said the article), were more and more avoiding what Mr. Lawrence believes is "their real career"-marriage. Spurred, Mr. Lawrence did what he had long thought of doing. He founded a college...
...although most Americans are hazy as to the whereabouts of Lithuania, and although there could be six revolutions to the minute there without affecting us, there will be plenty of readers to follow the stormy career of bold General Smetons, and to read of the opposing Cabinet Ministers, whose fate in such cases is always a hard and intriguing...
...Wakefield Cadman is famed for his Indian Lyrics. "At Dawning" (popularized by John McCormack and the Victor Co.), "From The Land Of The Sky Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
...scenes that he rememberednished pictures and two sketches, they depicted the Holy Land he is held, pretending to be an artist? The critics may have been right. Mr. Cornwall's work has a facility that keeps it from being important. He gets huge prices for his commercial work. His career is significant because it is a career typical of this country, and of the demands of business upon art. "I was commissioned to go to Palestine and paint the life there to show what it is really like," said Mr. Cornwell to a reporter. Why, one might wonder...
...great Sardinian minister served in the army in his youth, and imbibed the revolutionary doctrines of the time during his military service. After a career as a man of business and as an editor of II Risorgimento a Liberal journal of great influence, he became a member of the Sardinian Cabinet in 1850 as Minister of Finance and two years later became Premier...