Word: vocationalizing
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Lean, dour, grey-haired, with black eyes, big ears and dark lines of concentration on his face, Al Munro Elias still spends all his spare time watching baseball games, marking each play nervously on a special pad. The Bureau office, where his brother Walter is general manager, is equipped with...
Born in London (1860). eldest of five brothers, scion of a family that had been in the piano manufacturing business for a century, Frederick William Rolfe was a precocious but unstable youth. Against his family's wishes, he left school at 15, idled for a while, went to Oxford as...
Latest member of the artistic La Farge family to make his literary bow is Christopher, in a 224-page poem which he modestly calls "an American novel in verse." A patriotic poem, Hoxsie Sells His Acres sings not of arms and men but of Rhode Island land-lovers. A nostalgic...
Emil A. Marklewitz who teaches German ("Priceless literary gems were written in German") earns his living as a high-school physics instructor. Joseph R. Blanco, a Reo foreman, teaches Spanish. A high-school teacher and a radio service man explain the mysteries of Radio ("Understand this marvel of the Age...
Said Banker Aldrich in defense of his vocation: ''Many people are too prone to blame all financial evils upon bankers- either commercial or investment. Bankers have enough to atone for without being held responsible for orgies of gambling upon stock or commodity exchanges or for the rapacity of...