Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold dollars at last week's rate of exchange), the dealer accounted for by saying that "the coronet was set with valuable gems." A proper ducal coronet consists of a circlet of gold from which rise eight strawberry leaves also of gold. Peers below the rank of duke have to wear more ornate coronets. These may not be made of gold, must be made of silver gilded to look like gold. They must also be embellished with silver balls which the English call "pearls," but never with real pearls or gems of any sort. Thus a real duke...
...Author of perhaps the most candid War book by an officer of such high rank, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land (Cape & Smith...
...Russia rose from third to second rank as a world oil producer, nosing out Venezuela which dropped back to third place while the U. S. remains first...
...Mahatma Eilshemius is by no means a charlatan. He has been called the American Rousseau. His childish, sentimental painting has been described as "the type of thing . . . which would result were the rank and file of Americans capable of expressing themselves on canvas." He has been praised by Henri Matisse and dozens of others. His most important pictures have been bought by the three most astute collections of modern U. S. paintings: Whitney Museum, Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington), Mr. & Mrs. Chester Dale...
Accompanied by Jerry ("Jerry the Greek") Luvadis, his rubber and body servant, and Leonard Sacks, his smooth spoken Hollywood secretary and business manager, Dempsey left to continue his tour in Louisville, Ky. (where Governor Ruby Laffoon was to give him the rank of Colonel on the Governor's staff), and Dayton, Ohio. Since he started his series of exhibition bouts last August, he has attracted record crowds on most of his appearances, won all his fights except last week's, scored 26 knockouts and earned $200,000, of which he has spent half...