Word: second-ranking
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Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
...Federal funds to present a waxworks glorification of an arch-enemy of the Union, but the venture was damned on practically all other counts.* "Jefferson Davis," observed the New York Sun, "from the standpoint of playwriting, direction and acting would do little credit to the sophomore class of any second-rank high school. . . . Actors and others connected with the art of the drama most certainly are entitled to their share of the assistance the Government is extending to the jobless, but taxation plus boredom for the theatre-going citizens savors of double-jeopardy...
...hour later, when her match with Mrs. O. J. Dewhurst, a second-rank English player, had been definitely postponed, she drove up in an open Rolls Royce, sent her apologies to the Queen. She had not felt like playing, she said. Then, amid lusty English boos, she drove off. Said the London Daily News: "By being indisposed, Mile Lenglen has created a bigger sensation than if Poincaré had publicly embraced Caillaux...