Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
...career of the Associated Press under its first manager, Melville E. Stone, was traced-from a small co-operative association of newspapers in 1900 to a service with 1.200 member newspapers, 80,000 reporters, 131000 miles of leased wires and a $7,000,000 annual turnover. In 1920 Mr. Stone resigned. In 1921, on the occasion of the entombment of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, began a "splurge of flowery writing" the like of which Mr. Stone would never have permitted. President Harding's death, Woodrow Wilson's death, the deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Floyd Collins...
...Spartanburg, S. C.) where she took a master's degree at 17. She taught school until she met and married William G. Peterkin, prosperous planter. She put by her plans for a musical and perhaps theatrical career to manage the Peterkin plantation, "Lang Syne," 40 miles from Columbia, S. C., and bring up a son who is now 22. She became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes...
...meditative conscience and divorced parents, resolves upon the rock of an unhappy childhood that marriage, unless eternal, is a sin. Forthwith, she arouses a consuming love in Ted Larrabee, another child of divorce. She hesitates at marriage because she has millions and she wants Ted to have a career. Her cousin and childhood friend, Kitty Flanders, an effervescent little animal, also a child of divorce, sees an opening and captures Ted. The scene shifts from Long Island to Paris to the Riviera. Jean and a Prince de Sfax, without illusion and without love for each other, enter into a business...
...Chief , Justice of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Francis Anglin. Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction, as everyone knows, was a long career in classical roles, especially Shakespearean, and a lifelong feeling that she "could not act the part of a sinful, murderous woman." Acting President the Rev. Patrick J. Carroll of Notre Dame said: "She has kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature...