There, Diaghilev invited him to join the Ballets Russes where Balanchine was promptly promoted to ballet-master and given the freedom to choreograph.

He arrived on 12 April 1809 and was promptly promoted to post-captain the following day.

On his return to Japan in 1932, he was promptly promoted to lieutenant general.

Trying and failing, or suffering a gross injustice, on the other hand, was: Zelda Fitzgerald, for years little more than a dizzy flapper in the annals of literary history, was promptly promoted to feminist heroine when it came out that her husband had pilfered shamelessly from her letters and diaries.

John Jr. was promptly promoted to capo.

The brutal Schorner, a Fuhrer favorite and among the least talented of the German generals, was promptly promoted to Field Marshal.

In 1940 he was sent to the Philippines where he was promptly promoted to Brigadier General; he served as General Douglas MacArthur's second highest ranking ground officer, after General Jonathan Wainwright.

York was promptly promoted to Sergeant and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroism.

After becoming the Department of Correction's director of investigations in 1994, he was promptly promoted to first deputy commissioner, and in 1998 became commissioner.

When the editor of the Herald, John West, died in December 1873, Garran was promptly promoted.