Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upset the household by staying too long in the bathroom mornings. Others averred that he "photographed" the character instead of painting it with the sure stroke of a creator. Phyllis Povah, on the other hand, was credited with the most distinguished work of her not undistinguished career. The rest of the cast, the atmosphere and the direction were judged satisfactory...
Died. Charlotte Mignon ("Lotta") Crabtree, 77, famed actress (retired); in Boston. She began her career in a Nevada camp town where, after a hostile reception, she so won the hearts of the proud miners that they are said to have thrown nuggets of gold, bags of gold dust, at her feet. When she appeared in Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, admirers tossed her their watches and chains, tied up in handkerchiefs. She owned the Hotel Brewster in which she died. Her fortune, estimated at $4,000,000, was largely left to charitable organizations...
...achieve the office of President, all of them will assume the duties of citizenship. To know something of the nature and method of political organization is doubtless of value to the voter, even if acquired in a mock manner. It is to the political genious alone, as Roosevelt's career seems to testify, that participation or non-participation in student activities is a matter of complete indifference...
...Collier '24, former member of the Executive Board of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and one of the leading actors of both the Dramatic and the PI Eta Clubs, has taken up a professional stage career...
...senior was feared by the Republican party machine. His forceful personality had won him too much popularity. He was strongly opinionated. In a pinch, his orthodoxy could not be depended upon. So he was placed, in spite of himself, on the vice-presidential shelf, there to end his political career. Had it not been for the unfortunate death of President McKinley, Roosevelt would have been in 1904, politically dead...