Word: careerist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Britons. Total with reserves: about 560 men. Beside these stood another 560 native mounted police with rifles, machine guns, British officers. Their leader was Lieut. Colonel Arthur Reginald Chater, oldtime desert fighter. Governor and Commander in Chief of the protectorate is Vincent Goncalves Glenday, 49, an Oxonian sportsman careerist in Britain's colonial service...
...ordinary family-business careerist is Elisha. In 1925 his father, then president of L. E. Waterman Co., tossed him out of his job with the company. On his own, Elisha took a $35-a-month flat in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, cooked hamburgers, washed dishes, wrote detective stories for a living. In 1938 his father died, left him just $100. But his father's death also left Elisha a beneficiary of the trust that controlled L. E. Waterman Co. Elisha moved back into the company, was fulsomely hailed in the press as the "Cinderella Man" (TIME, June...