Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pszanowski, a Polish miner's son who began walking a beat in Omaha 20 years ago and reached his present eminence last July, is something new in police chiefs. He does not believe in violence. He is supposed to have used his night stick only twice in his career. Says he: "The day of the bully is done. The day of the treat-'em-rough policeman is over. We must so conduct ourselves, in our relations with the public, that we shall be regarded as public servants who know the rules of courtesy as well as the means...
...ended the six months' career of Sergey McTavish as mascot of the Seventh Battalion of Red Army Riflemen...
...horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand scandal of disaster. Fisk "went in" to save his partner, but Gould took cunning advantage of the generous gesture, ruined debonair Fisk, and saved himself...
Professor Pratt has had a varied career as student, teacher, author, and traveller. After taking an A. B. at Williams, and an A. M. at Harvard he studied for a year at the Columbia Law School and the University of Berlin, after which he took a Ph.D. at Harvard...
...those who enjoy the precocious if somewhat naive prattle of wide awake found ladies with a "career" on the stage awaiting them "Angel Child" by Grace Perkins is just the thing it is so to speak the diary of a girl of thirteen who travels the circuit with her mother and plays juvenile parts mean while keeping an open eye upon the rest of the company life in general and a place in the moving pictures in particular...