Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good friend: We have judged it expedient to confer the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon our trusty and well-beloved the Hon. Charles Vincent Massey, member of our Privy Council in Canada, with the especial object of representing in the United States of America the interests of our Dominion of Canada...
...guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family. 4) The plot, timed for Dec. 23, fizzled. 5) Chief of Staff Badoglio has now been "promoted" to a new office invented by Premier Mussolini, and called "Supreme Chief of Staff." At his new post General Badoglio's theoretical rank is higher, but he is deprived of his onetime authority to order the movement of troops...
...yellow curtains folded. A moment of silence, then storms of applause and 37 curtain calls. No one fled for his limousine. This ovation was sincere. Critics hailed a triumph: The Henchman, they said was more than the greatest U. S. opera; it took rank with the great music of the world. Though Composer Taylor showed traces of Wagnerian influence, his music held enough ingenuous wealth to need no comparison, to point to far greater possibilities of creation...
General Carlos Ibanez, peppery and choleric, is not so much the Dictator as the Playboy of Chile.* A year ago his rank was that of colonel, but even then he was admittedly master of the military Junta which makes and unmakes Chilean presidents. Last week, as Minister of War, he suddenly made a characteristic statement to the press...
...Lord Lascelles and Princess Mary. When the Queen-Empress goes there it is noticed, moreover, that Lord Lascelles is usually away. From this state of affairs springs the suspicion, now current in court circles, that Viscount Lascelles pointedly" resents the King-Emperor's neglect in not raising his rank since his marriage to Princess Mary...