Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crack British Career Diplomat, Lord Inver-chapel (formerly Sir Archibald Clark Kerr), succeeds to the U.S. ambassadorship...
...blood and thunder saga o the career of Billy the Kid, who "in the brief span of twenty-one years sent twenty-one men to untimely graves," the musical manages to keep a plot together while the audience witnesses at least fifteen of the murders in addition to innumerable songs and dances. The music is good, though nothing for the Hit Parade. The cast and scenes are colorfully symbolic of New Mexico, the locale of the story...
Chen's sentence capped a career at ironic variance with the literal translation of his name: "Exhibit Public Greatness." In the days when he was an honest man, Chen had never been more than a high-ranking functionary. Now he qualified as the great traitor only because Wang Ching-wei was dead and the Russians held Puppet Emperor Henry Pu-yi of Manchukuo...
...different courses in Military Science and Tactics are open to physically qualified young citizens of the United States, who might desire a finishing polish to their military career. But the best advice than can be given to most veterans is to stay-home and read a good book...
...outraged his father, a prosperous Manhattan hatter, by insisting on songwriting ("Why didn't you become a bootlegger and be done with it?"), turned out the suave scores of No, No, Nanette* and Flying Down to Rio before chronic illness blighted his career at full bloom...