Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signify that he accepted his reinstatement and endorsement with fit humility, Senator Reed mounted the platform at a fair in Sedalia, Mo., and, with never a mention of his own ambitions, intoned the political creed of a "rank-and-file" Democrat. The crowd, of course, caught Reed fever and again silver-tipped Senator Reed was acclaimed Missouri's candidate, promised a solid delegation...
...Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order to General Summerall, his superior in rank, that President Coolidge, who suddenly felt and announced a desire to see General Summerall, sent personally for General Summerall, with a directness that seemed almost peremptory. The General cut short his inspection tour and started for Washington. At the White House, no direct evidence could be discovered that the President...
...Lions Club of York, Pa., was Dr. Gill's immediate audience last week as he flayed- ". . . The commissioning of recent graduates in medicine, attracted to the Naval Health Service by an assured stipend, a voiceless clientele, lack of competition and diagnosis backed by military rank...
Upon Commander Savage, King Albert pinned the Order of Leopold I, commander's rank (equivalent of commanderhood in the Legion d'Honneur, which Commander Savage already possessed...
...musketeer, calloused by army life, and as a wanderer, arrogant one moment and miserable the next. He has a taste of intensely pure and happy married life only to be dashed to the depths of depraved vagabondage. He witnesses the great social changes of his time both from the rank of a nobleman and from the position of a beggar...