Word: professional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If you go to business at all it's 9 to 1 you work in an office rather than in a factory-and if you are in a profession it is likely to be teaching. But the odds are 2 to 1 your only job is being a wife...
* At their profession all Trappists take the name of Mary. The Order has a special devotion to the Virgin.
Columnist Fisher is amused by the fact that in 1937 Pegler himself took one of the most eloquent swings at columnizing: "Of all the fantastic fog shapes that have risen off the swamp of confusion since the big war, the most futile . . . the most pretentious is the deep-thinking, hair...
Died. William Allen White, 75, most famed contemporary Kansan, independent Republican, main street philosopher, author of 15 books (including biographies of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Coolidge); after long illness; in his native Emporia, where for 49 years he had edited the Gazette, making it the most quoted of all country...
Jimmy turned to his old tonic: intimate, free-style comedy in a Manhattan nightclub. His triumph in eight weeks at the Copacabana enraptured his friends and customers, who saw a great clown resume mastery of his profession. He was, in his own tongue, "colossial." His take ($2,750 weekly from...