Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk on the National Raw Silk Exchange. E. Gerli & Co. have a year in which to distribute the silk. They expect to sell about half (the poorer grades) in Japan and the Orient, the better grades in the U. S. and Europe. Because it was understood that henceforth Japan will...
Letty Lynton (MGM). The heroine of this picture further enlightens cinemaddicts on the pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors...
...into three loosely organized troupes. Each is controlled by a promoter who sees to it that his best performers do not risk prestige or popularity by wrestling against able members of a rival group. Each has a claimant to the world's championship, several more or less high-grade contenders for it. De Vito hitherto has belonged to a group controlled by Paul Bowser, which operates in Boston and the Midwest. The Bowser group also includes Gus Sonnenberg, Jack Sherry, Don George, Henri De Glane (champion). Londos is champion for the most profitable of the three groups, operated...
...glory, while others are hunted by the police. The history of them all is the history of our race, in the main." Though abysmal dullness abounds, Author Pitkin finds that lack of integration in people's personalities is what makes their stupidity so genuine. In some ways high-grade morons are cleverer than ordinary men; in some ways near geniuses are more stupid. From the same unbalance suffer individuals, mobs, nations, races. With these as building blocks Author Pitkin gradually erects a Katzenjammer Kastle of the human race. One of its foundation-stones is the Pittsburgh citizen, now dead...
Unlike tennis, contract bridge has no governing body to grade the year's ten best players. Bridge experts, however, have surprisingly unanimous opinions on the matter. Few would have quarreled more than mildly with the ranking, based on play in last year's tournaments, which Shepard Barclay, bridge commentator of the New York Herald Tribune, made last week for the Saturday Evening Post...