Word: professionâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Lord Birkenhead's career has been at once brilliant, diverse, meteoric and successful. In his 52nd year, comparatively a young man as public servants go in Britain, he can point back to distinguished academic achievements, a rapid and dazzling ascent to the apex of the legal profession???the Woolsack, and a political career, which, if erratic and opportune, has at least been singularly free of the unspectacular. "F. E.," as Lord Birkenhead is known in Britain, can be said to have started his career at Oxford. There, in the year 1893, he was elected President of the Oxford Union Society...
Thus coming back to his native country he also returns to his original profession???but in neither case, of course, to where he began. He always had a tendency to circle back to his beginnings. From Urbana where he was born (one of the numerous Urbanas, this one happening to be in Ohio) he went to Toledo and became a newspaper reporter. From there he went to Chicago, still at the same trade; then to Springfield, Ill., as a clerk in the State Department. There he studied law, was admitted to the bar, married? and from there returned to Toledo...