Word: careering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding Navy aviator, the eldest of five Annapolis-bred brothers, Crommelin had had a distinguished airman's career on Pacific carriers. Since last spring he has been serving in Washington as a naval-aviation expert on the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last fortnight he had suddenly burst into print with charges that the Navy's offensive power was "being nibbled to death...
Airman Crommelin knew what he was risking: "I'm finished," he declared. "This means my naval career. But I hope this will blow the whole thing open. Up to now, I've felt like an accessory to a crime. I can't stand it any longer...
...page of the old New York Evening World noted that "the story of a cloak-and-suit operator's climb from a dingy tenement to Park Avenue will be dramatized in the Rise of the Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). In all the years, the Goldbergs have never managed...
Under Capricorn (Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) puts Ingrid Bergman to work under one of the heaviest handicaps of her career. At best, the story is a florid historical romance; at its worst it is little better than hysterical drugstore fiction. Even tricked out with Technicolor and the skillfully elegant direction of Alfred Hitchcock, if remains a tedious and dispiriting yarn...
...game, its symbol, the axe, is presented to the winning team by the Governor of California. Forged in 1899 in the shape of a medieval battle axe, this weapon has had a stormy career. One month after its unveiling on the Stanford campus it was captured by California and carried off to Berkeley. Many years later, when it was beng removed from the vault of an Oakland bank, it was seized by a group known as the immortal six and brought back to the Farm. Another theft returned it to Berkeley until 1930, when 21 stalwarts from Stanford stormed...