Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrew Mellon's son Paul, to his father's bitter disappointment, had declined the career of a financial tycoon. Paul chose to go to Virginia, raise horses, read books and administer philanthropies. In 1934, with a strong sense of duty, R. K. Mellon took over the family throne...
...late," declared Historian Douglas Southall Freeman, who usually rolls out at 2:30 A.M. and hits the hay at 9 P.M. "The nation would be greater and its people more alert mentally and physically if they got out of bed by sunup every day . . . The difference between a career and a job is the difference between forty hours a week and sixty hours a week...
Last week, at 70, Juan March (rhymes with park) staged one of the most audacious strokes of his audacious career. He snatched Spain's biggest public utility, the $250 million Ebro Irrigation & Power Co., Ltd., away from an international electrical combine run by a U.S. businessman and partly financed by U.S. and British investors...
...history lesson is modestly pegged on the career of a young Navy pilot (Gary Cooper) who gets his start in 1921 aboard the U.S.S. Langley and retires at the end of World War II as a rear admiral. Meanwhile, along with a salty senior officer (admirably played by Walter Brennan), he has fought a stubborn battle for carrier-launched aircraft-in outmoded planes, in Annapolis classrooms and in a series of Washington lobbies. On Dec. 7, 1941, the Navy's Cooper happens to be stationed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise as it is making for Pearl Harbor...
...reserved master of the Classics in an English public school--"the Himmel of the Lower Fifth," as he is characterized by the headmaster. The play concerns the gradual eliciting of his emotions toward himself, his work and his promiscuous wife. A humorless man, he had been unable, throughout his career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which was lightened only by dry puns. The climax occurs when a member of his alienated Greek class presents him, on his retirement, with a copy of Browning version of the "Agamemnon"--second hand--inscribed with...