Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Craig, reading General Hagood's testimony in the Washington Star, wrote his subordinate to ask whether he had really said what was reported. Fourteen days later "by direction of the President" General Hagood was deprived of his Corps Area command-a terrific slap for an officer of his rank. What happened in those 14 days kept Washington guessing last week. New Dealers, doubly sensitive in a campaign year to such catch phrases as "stage money," were incensed at General Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should not allow such...
...little woman who spoke only Russian. Officially the two were equals. The guest was young Paulina Semionova Zhemchuzhina, wife of President Molotov of the Council of People's Commissars of the U. S. S. R., a position technically but by no means actually outranking Joseph Stalin's rank of Secretary-General of the Communist Party. Furthermore, Mme Molotov is herself founder and head of the Soviet cosmetics trust, Tezhe, which last year turned back to the State a profit of $84,000,000. Mrs. Roosevelt's admiration for businesswomen made Mme Molotov fittingly the first wife...
Most experienced critics have little patience with the rank & file of young musicians who want to play in public. Marjorie Edwards was well above the average. She exhibited a real flair for the violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...
...hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth Bowen on a par with Virginia Woolf, they may yet rank her ahead...
...funds to present a waxworks glorification of an arch-enemy of the Union, but the venture was damned on practically all other counts.* "Jefferson Davis," observed the New York Sun, "from the standpoint of playwriting, direction and acting would do little credit to the sophomore class of any second-rank high school. . . . Actors and others connected with the art of the drama most certainly are entitled to their share of the assistance the Government is extending to the jobless, but taxation plus boredom for the theatre-going citizens savors of double-jeopardy...