Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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NEVER has a biblical personnage encountered such ultra-modern handling as ancient Samson experiences at the hands of Mr. Washburn whose first novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone...
...that Washington in the note would bang and bolt the door on further efforts at naval disarmament were more than half believed. . . . London agrees that this note is the most happily constructed and phrased diplomatic document that has come from Washington for a long time, and that it deserves rank as a masterpiece...
Captain D. L. Ruffner who taught here last year has the first half of Military Science 2, and the second half of Military Science 3, Captain Franck Camm, recently promoted to this rank, has the direction of the first half of Military Science 4, and the last half of Military Science...
...Bacon, who also served at Harvard and Radcliffe as an assistant in English, was graduated from Lafayette College in 1917 and in the following year took the degree of master of arts at the University. During the war he held the rank of ensign in the United Stated Navy...
...Johansen has added most distinction to the exhibitions in the old Casino. Painter John Christen Johansen came first to Stockbridge to visit his good friend Walter Leighton Clark. Enchanted, he remained to colonize, paint. Great and friendly is the rivalry between Painter Johansen and Painter Jean MacLane. Both rank with the foremost U. S. portrait painters, whose canvasses are held bargains...