Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peculiar significance of Ibsen in Norway cannot be realized unless it is remembered that he was of Danish, not Norwegian, stock and chose to pass much of his manhood and old age away from Norway on the Continent of Europe. Thus he came more readily to achieve international fame, but lost touch with Norwegians who were then flocking in rapturous admiration around a playwright-demagogue who is scarcely known outside of Norway, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, "The Old Bear...
...Chose to Retire...
OKLAHOMANS RESENT CALLING ROBERT L OWEN A LAME DUCK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNOPPOSED FOR REELECTION BUT CHOSE TO RETIRE SENATOR OWEN IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHOR OF AMERICAS MOST CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT YOU ARE RIGHT HE WOULD BE TOWERING AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OR AS PRESIDENT...
...Lowden chose, in preference to directing the affairs of the Navy, to retire to his farm. It was a bona fide farm. He had not bought it in the first swift decline of farm prosperity with a shrewd eye to the political advantages which might accrue from being identified with a lively issue. He had bought his farm twenty-one years before this time--in 1899 and some years before his interest had ever turned to politics. Gradually the farm had grown until in 1920 it comprised more than a thousand acres. The job of reorganizing it and making...
...Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep...