Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since I seem to be thinking all the time anyway, I might just as well not be doing it for nothing, and write it down. And anyway a married girl who is wealthy enough to have the home life carried on by the servants ought to have a career...
...Well, my career in the cinema went right over people's heads and became a financial failure. So I decided to become literary instead, and spent a lot of time in the ris-kay literary invirament of the Algonquin. So my gentleman friend said that I seem to be full of nothing so much as cute ideas, and the ones that are the most amuseing to the reading public are about my un-mental friend Dorothy. Because I use Psychology and understand that there are some people in the world who cannot help it if thier instincks are unnatural...
Such a move as this sacrifices one of the chief benefits to be derived from outside activities. The compromise that must be effected between rival interests is a problem that, if worked out for himself, can be of the greatest value to the student. No matter what career he takes up, some day the question of apportioning his time will become the vital issue and often success or failure may depend on his solution. To attempt to keep him from gaining such valuable experience by a rule that sets a uniform limit to a quality as varied as capacity...
Ramilda Avery's career in adventuring began when she ran away from her home in Des Moines, Iowa; it led her to what she called "sleuthing," in Chicago; when this became tiresome, she wobbled off to New Orleans and got a job as a detective. While "sleuthing," in New Orleans cabarets, she met several sailors. Inspired already with her calamitous yearnings, she cultivated their friendship. Then one early morning, clad in a uniform which she had borrowed from one of them by saying she wanted it for a masquerade party, rowdy Ramilda sneaked onto the Sands and hid herself...
Justice Branch, originally from New York City, entered Harvard in 1898 and received his A. B. degree after four years of academic work. He completed a course at the Law School two years later. After a distinguished legal career he was appointed chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and the next year went to the Supreme Court bench. His term will expire...