Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After so much Hollywood hubbub it was logical to suppose that The Good Earth would turn out as chaotic as its preparation and as superficial as the novel was deep. Instead, it emerged as a real cinema epic, faithful in spirit, plot and acting to its forebear, sure to rank as one of the great pictures of all time...
Certain aspects of the plan betray a surprising lack of generosity on the part of the University. Morning lectures are to be recorded and not put on the air until later in the day when the audience is larger. This is rank discrimination against the American housewife, and promises to become a breeder of privilege. Imagine the pleasure that would come into the lives of our wives and mothers if during mornings spent bent over a hot stove or steaming washtub they could turn a switch and hear a lecture from Mallinckrodt, perhaps by Professor Kohler, giving them some...
...King's equerries, Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird; and to Edward VIII's air pilot, Wing Commander Edward Hedley ("Mouse") Fielden. When famed "Mouse" did not elect to serve the Duke of Windsor, London newspapers printed that he has retained under George VI his Edward-invented rank, "Captain of the King's Flight," but in listing him last week for the Royal Vic orian Order, 4th Class, no such title was mentioned...
...supreme court of the British Commonwealth of Nations is in London and is called the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The entire Privy Council consists of some 300 British statesmen in all by parts their of the sovereign globe who with the have rank been of "P. C." honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void...
...popped into the spotlight with an exhibition illustrating the history of bronze-casting from about 3000 B.C. to the 20th Century. Eschewing such utilitarian objects as Roman swords, motorboat propellers and bank tellers' cages, the gallery has assembled a collection of 173 statuettes, all of them of first rank, only one (a Degas figurine) the property of the Albright Art Gallery. Most liberal lenders were New York's Metropolitan Museum, which offered 33 pieces, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which loaned 26. Such private collectors as John Pierpont Morgan, Jules Semon Bache, William Randolph Hearst, George Blumenthal...