Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends of Consul Reinhardt hint that at present he is being put on the spot by intriguing Nazis, who, they claim, do not like him, have sidetracked his diplomatic career...
...been content with boxing and boccie, began to stream into Yankee Stadium. "Poosh 'em up, Tony!" thereafter was the battle cry of the bleachers. In the World Series of 1936, on the tenth anniversary of his famed strikeout, "Poosh'em up Tony" reached the climax of his career when he hit a home run with the bases loaded-a feat that had been accomplished only once before in a World Series...
Three years ago, after a long career of dodging immigration officials and rubber-checking rich and high-born speak-easy acquaintances, Mike's luck ran out. After a short spell in jail, he skipped Manhattan...
...What keeps him punching is a firm notion that falling short of the championship in any endeavor is the equivalent of a complete and final washout. For ten years of marriage he is a father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice...
...illustration of this fallibility he quoted the varying judgements of posterity expressed in Winston Churchill's "Life of Marlborough" on the Peace of Utrecht and the career of the Duke of Marlborough...