Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark of early morning, long before the regular 10 o'clock opening hour, a Freshman who just couldn't wait to get started on his college career sneaked into Memorial Hall and signed his name--William Eustis--that interminable number of times that seem to be required, thus becoming the first official member of his class...
...make their living by panhandling is not virtuous; indeed, it is destructive and therefore evil. In view of the Harvard man's sophistication and supposed intelligence, it is ridiculous that he be regarded by professional beggars in this neighborhood as being the biggest sucker. Will you begin your career here by becoming the dupe of trained sympathy-provokers...
Loew's State and Orpheum have bullet-jawed Edward G. Robinson in "I Am the Law", one of a series of current pictures revolving about the career of Prosecutor Thomas Dewey. Relief of a sort to the rat-tat-tat of the Robinson film is provided by Joe E. Brown in the co-feature, "The Gladiator", which also includes Main Mountain Dean...
...last pages, describing his job as secretary to the Bulgarian Consul in Chicago, the start of his literary career, his return to his native country as Balkan correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, are less interesting, but refreshingly unsoulful...
Author Stone makes much of the contradictions in London's career-his belief in socialism and his desire for wealth, his belief in sexual freedom and his desire for a quiet home life, his enormous good nature and his periods of despondency. Author Stone also tries to trace London's talent to his father, who was, he says, not John London but an eccentric, intelligent astrologer named Chaney. Whoever his father was, London spent such an adventurous youth that his stored-up experiences were good for 16 years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate...