Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it up, and every day thereafter from lunch until tea time, Britain's Queen Mother led a party armed with pruning shears, billhooks and mattocks, against the undergrowth. "No one who came to Badminton, whatever their rank or position, was exempt," says her latest biographer. "Queen Mary . . . worked with a will herself, lopping off branches, all the time keeping an eye on the rest of the party, making sure that no on-flagged...
They say that Curley uses a different side of his mouth for either side of Beacon Hill. In his hey-day, he had the cultured charm in his voice of the highest rank of Brahmin, yet, on the same night, he could go across the Hill to the North End and deliver a spirited, rabble-rousing speech that would practically incite whole national groups to riot. There wasn't anyone who Curley couldn't sell in Boston. He could as easily convince the millionaire Robert White to leave his money to the city for health improvements, as line up ward...
From first to last J. Arthur Rank's "Scott of the Antarctic" is a melodrama--in the most favorable sense of the word. It tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's last expedition in 1908 into the Antarctic waste. There are scenes in the film which establish the personal relationships of the five men who make the desperate final dash to the South Pole. Far more important than these relationships, however, is the common purpose of the men to reach the Pole before Amundsen, and to return before the setting of the sun brings the winter blizzards...
...some extent, Rank was forced into this disastrous policy by the British government's dollar-saving quota slapped on U.S. movies in 1947 (40% of the pictures shown in British theaters must be British made). He was also hit when Hollywood retaliated by refusing to show U.S. pictures on the same bill with British films. Since Rank owns 60% of Britain's theaters, he was under heavy government pressure to step up his picture-making activities...
...devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...