Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. And so he would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on. It is not, to be sure, that the passion for rank and honors, which is only careerism, possess him, but it is beyond doubt the hope of playing a great role in great events...
Official union leaders at the meeting wanted the ship to sail. Murphy's immediate demands (for more representation from the rank & file at union negotiations) were only a smokescreen for his major aim: to hold the Mary at Southampton for at least a day, regardless of the cost. If he could do that, he might inject some hope into the fading Merseyside strike...
Next day the meeting on the green took but a few minutes. The union had surrendered; the rank & file now had their representation. Then Murphy spoke: "They said I had no control over you. Well, we will throw that back at them. I say you are going back to the ship and you'll take her out this afternoon. Will you?" The response startled the birds in the trees overhead and several men raised clenched fists. "All right," said Murphy, "go back to the ship...
This success gave Korda's voice a confident ring as he announced that his new company, London. Film Productions, Ltd., would turn out 13 pictures next year and spend $20 million in the process. (With the announcement of J. Arthur Rank that he would make 43 pictures worth $40 million next year, Britain could expect 80 new pictures, its largest production ever...
Beware of Pity (J. Arthur Rank) is a cinemadaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel, one of those puddle-depth stories that, draining themselves with a sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...