Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sciences, an elderly, slender and competent person who helped her famed husband in his ventures and is now the sole executrix of $140,000,000, the largest fortune controlled by any woman in the world. But since this fortune derived originally from her husband, his widow cannot take rank among those women who made their money by their own unaided efforts. Most commentators therefore give the title "most successful business woman in the U. S." to a very different sort of lady who last week also appeared in the news...
...theme, for which he chose Oscar Wilde's necrophilistic version, U. S. presentations were banned for some time after the first Metropolitan hearing in Manhattan. But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"- and in Europe the opera at once took front rank. Followed Elektra, whose unpleasant theme, being classic, caused less offense; then Der Rosencavalier, an entirely new departure in its Rabelaisian farce of both libretto and score (the libretto had to be cut for virtuous Manhattan). Der Rosencavalier, with its infectious burlesque, wit and sparkle, stays his best liked opera, perhaps...
...White '27, star number 2 rider on the University team, is the only Harvard horseman who was granted an increase. His handicap was raised from two to three goals. The other Harvard players rank as follows: F. A. Clark '29, 4 goals; R.A. Pinkerton '27, 3 goals; Alexander Shaw '28, 2 goals...
...Democrat must march with the squad, Senator Ransdell, bearded Louisiana interventionist, might add his patriarchal pep to the rear rank. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, who despatched six more warships to Nicaragua last week, all the while keeping a shroud of silence over the ugly hulking war scare, should also do his bit in the squad?perhaps a hornpipe. Finally, Democrats agreed, the very man to march in the rear rank, just in front of File Closer Kellogg, would be his former law partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully...
...Class B series, the Harvard players scored a clean sweep when they defeated the Weston Club, gaining fourth place in the Inter-club championship race. The Freshman court men rank eighth in the Class C series by virtue of a 5 to o victory over the Newton Club...