Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince's frolicsome valet, who kisses her when his master is out of the room and is admirably behaved in every respect. What the audience knows, and Miss Lawrence does not, is that the Prince is really the valet and the valet the Prince. They have exchanged rank for the evening. What Miss Lawrence knows, and the audience only later discovers, is that she is really a parlor maid. This she is forced to admit when the real Prince playfully introduces her mistress. Baroness von Rischenheim, in the guise of a serving maid. But with masks discarded...
When these statements appeared in the press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
...Embassy at Paris (the first ever appointed to such a post), Governor of the Aero Club of America, Treasurer of the National Aeronautic Association, an international banker and authority on conditions in the Eastern Baltic Republics, and a West Point graduate retiring from the Army in 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 4) That the "onetime Navy aircraft engineer" (Holden Chester Richardson) was, in fact, a Captain in the Navy, Chief of the Material Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy Department, and responsible for all Naval aircraft design: one of the designers of the NC seaplanes used...
...League of Nations and at important international gatherings like The Hague Conference. He has gone everywhere while Il Duce has not stirred out of Italy-doubtless fearing assassination. Thus Signor Grandi has been for a long time de facto Foreign Min- ister. Now he may revel in honors of rank at last due him. Three Quadrumvirs. Three members of the famed Quadrumvirate who strode with II Duce on the March to Rome in 1922, when he seized power, were given Cabinet posts last week. General Emilio De Bono, veteran of the Lybian and World Wars received the important Ministry...
...River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation to a manufacturer, and it was Lord Leverhulme who developed the Belgian Congo more successfully than it had been exploited under the vigorous...