Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine example of his private family life, are known and admired by the entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly (1894); Orator William Bourke Cockran (1901); Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1903); Diplomat...
...inspiration. When Author Connolly's mother returned home late one afternoon last week both her sons were missing, but a note identical with the last written lines of The Marble Coffin, was conspicuously present. Hastily summoned police discovered the author and his brother camping in a nearby field. Censured, Author Connolly protested: "You don't understand. I had to do it for the book...
...boys on the whole are just great," continued Miss Gray, "and as for Harvard men.--Hot dog! Don't they have simply wonderful football teams there! I often go to the Harvard-Yale game, and I cheer for Harvard, too. I've always wanted to run down onto the field and carry the pigskin through that line of Blue, myself. I'll bet I could shake off those tacklers...
...think I would like insurance; it's mostly all selling, isn't it?" This was the comment of one senior recently when I suggested the Insurance business as a field which offers opportunities. This is one of the illusions which is more or less prevalent and which is based on lack of acquaintance with modern business...
Just as for every soldier "in the front line trenches" there must be three or four behind the lines in training or reserve, so in every business organization, for every man who is actually out in the field selling, there must be other employees in the branch or home office...