Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor poets, as the present has been called, Walter de la Mare does not seem an alien. Whether or not some of his more famed contemporaries are first-rank poets or not, even his friends have never put him in a false position of greatness. His most popular books have been rhymes for children and fairytales; his best poetry has been both gossamer and ghostly. In this collection, his first book of verse in six years, readers will not find such little masterpieces of suggestion as "The Listeners" or "The Suicide." Poet de la Mare...
...France it may be productive of good conversation, in Germany of music, and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen. . . . We have arrived at a point where a decided stand should be taken, not by authorities, but by college men themselves, and I now rank Yale among the worst in this matter...
After three years of exile de Pinedo, 43, believed himself in line for promotion last autumn "to the highest possible military air rank." Instead he was retired, put on reserve. In January he went to the U. S. with an idea for an aerial "tramp" freight service around the world in the southern hemisphere. Last week he popped up in Manhattan where he had been going under the name of "Mr. Smith." He had a new plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia...
...Last week another bonus march on Washington was threatened for mid-May. One Harold Foulkrod, agent for the "Bonus Expeditionary Force Rank & File," issued a call for 50,000 veterans. Foulkrod was repudiated by the leaders of last year's B. E. F. Last week he was ejected from the Senate gallery for applauding Indiana's Robinson...
...hoped that the presence of the crack Army team at Fort Sheridan might cause the sulky cliques of socialites, who for years have played polo in & about Chicago on separate fields and with highly distinct organizations, to forget their differences, build up one or two teams good enough to rank with the best...