Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profitable sport, while it lasts this intercontinental hopping. Two heroes who initiated the game have folded their wings and perched in prominent executive positions. An only semi-successful aviatrix has achieved silks and satins and the acclaim of America's girl glorifier. Others wear the badges of army-rank, possess the bank-accounts of Correspondence School successes, and appear weekly in the suburban newsreel...
...June number of the Advocate, one may safely say is readable and entertaining even to people such as business editors who are presumed to have essentially prosaic minds. Greater praise than this would lay your reviewer open to the charge of extravagance; less would be a rank injustice to the editors...
...symphony ends with the coming of spring is uncertain; at any rate, these concerts have gone upon the opposite asumption, and the results have been distinctly gratifying. Evidently the public is not completely satisfied with the usual program of shreds and patches. The Pops are hardly ready to take rank as a continuation of the regular orchestral season, and after all, it is natural that musical taste should approve a somewhat lighter fare in the spring than in the winter. Nevertheless, the complete renunciation of the most thoughtful music in favor of five-minute overtures has received a check...
...Stair is unique as an important publisher. Other publishers of his rank have sedulously avoided open relations with other business enterprises. William Randolph Hearst, for all his wealth, is publicly a director only in Cosmopolitan Finance Co., and the International Film Service Co. His Arthur Brisbane, who is rich in real estate and touts great corporations in his syndicated editorials, is known to be director of no company. Roy Wilson Howard tends closely to his newspaper and affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs...
...decorations were to be given, I certainly could reasonably expect one worthy of my rank. I didn't ask for the Legion of Honor, but only said the decoration should correspond to my position in the musical world...