Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What with the journalistic invective that greeted the arrival of the watered-down fit for Boston version of Tobacco Road, assailing it on grounds of rank indecency, and the very fact that it had been adjusted for the adolescent minds of the Hub city, the play which ran so long in New York will probably soon fade here. Crowded to the rafters on the first two nights by prurient sensation hunters, the theatre was only half filled on Friday, and unless a sudden renaissance is experienced, Henry Hull and Company had better make tracks elsewhere...
Small Town Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemactress Janet Gaynor occupies a unique niche in Hollywood. She is one of the half dozen pre-talkie stars who are still front rank box-office attractions. This phenomenal record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small...
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...methods to the exclusion of expansion. An analysis of sales at the beginning of 1935 caused the company to discard unprofitable business which amounted to more than 30,000,000 gallons annually." To the average oilman, whose god is gallonage, shrewd, popular Dan Moran's statement sounded like rank heresy...
...Gogh was not dead but in a cataleptic trance. He had cut off his own ear by way of self-punishment. Paul Gauguin had had nothing to do with it beyond the fact that he had spent Christmas Eve in his friend's company. The two lived to rank among the greatest of French modernists. Both were mouse-poor and half-insane when they died. Both have been made the protagonists of best-selling novels.* Last week Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries did its best to give Paul Gauguin a memorial show to match the great van Gogh exhibition...