Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakership. In line of seniority for the speakership?if Republicans organize the House?is Connecticut's tall, lean John Quillin Tilson, now the majority floor leader. But he lacks the Longworth popularity among the rank & file of House Republicans. Behind his smile lies a dogmatic manner, a tart tongue. As floor leader he has often failed to command a following. But because of Mr. Tilson's intense loyalty to White House policies, President Hoover would like to see his elevation. Already last week he had rivals for the Speakership?Rules Chairman Bert Snell, ultra-conservative and hardboiled, supported...
...theory and in fact is the King of Siam. Last week this potent small man (98 Ib.) was en route to clasp hands in Washington with President Hoover. When he does so the King of Siam will be the first Oriental ever to enter the White House with the rank and dignity of Reigning Sovereign...
...money to rebuild the city. Last week the brewery and the power house were the only habitable buildings still standing. Hour by hour it became increasingly apparent that the city must be, like the ancient Mayan cities of Mexico, abandoned to the vulture, the lizard, the tapir, the rank jungle. Managua was a pretty city; in its 76 years as the capital it had flourished. Among the adobe shacks were handsome villas, gardened palaces, pretentious public buildings. Managua was chosen as the capital in 1855 to end the interminable bloody rivalry of Nicaragua's chief cities: Granada, stronghold...
Rothenstein's Oxford Characters established him as a pencil-portraitist of the first rank, but though he painted nudes, landscapes, Cheapside costers, his lithographer's pencil has always been reserved for the faces of the great and near-great. For a Briton to be the subject of a Rothenstein portrait or a Beerbohm caricature is like membership in the Institut de France to a Frenchman. In 1899 he married Alice Knewstub, a beautiful young lady who played leads opposite Sir Herbert Tree...
...world. He decided when he was eleven to enlist in the Marines. When he did, he was sent to Haiti. He missed the War because of a compound fracture of the arm, but had plenty of fighting against Haitian bandits, rose to be a Marine sergeant with rank of lieutenant in the native gendarmerie. A crack shot, he personally potted many a Caco (bandit), but in off hours he made friends with the peaceful natives, did many queer, unsoldierly things, such as acting as emergency midwife and going to voodoo meetings. Several times he visited the island of La Gonave...