Word: rank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school is fun for the listeners. One night last week millions of Britons, including His Majesty George V, tuned in on the radio stations and had fun. They listened for 45 minutes to such tattling as has probably never before been indulged in by a British statesman of first rank. They heard hot off the scathing, contemptuous tongue of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden the inside story of The Hague Reparations Conference. Assumedly the King-Emperor was de- lighted, for he soon "commanded" Mr. & Mrs. Snowden to come to him at Sandringham, received them on the lawn, kept them...
...They won the national doubles championship from a field which included the Tilden-Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope Doeg of Stanford, 20, lefthanded, a smiting server, was especially pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles champion with Maurice ("Comet"; McLoughlin Lean-faced George Martin Lott Jr. of Chicago was especially pleased with himself...
They discussed, drafted and signed, he declared, "a secret treaty establishing a military unity between the 'Little Entente' nations, thus raising the effective status of the group to the rank of a Great Power...
...Baltimore's oldest and most trusted houses. He was graduated from Princeton in 1895. At 29, he entered the U. S. foreign service, served as secretary of legation at The Hague, moved on to the embassies at Berlin and Rome. In 1910 he was advanced to ministerial rank, representing the U. S. in Venezuela, later in the Argentine...
...Painter Chandor got them all to sit together for a monster canvas which, when finished, was given a place of honor in the Government's pavilion at Wembley and later hung permanently in the Colonial Office. This piece of work entrenched Painter Chandor, at 27, in the very front rank of his profession...