Word: grand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Regatta about the same as has always been done at Saratoga. They will be asked to have the course accurately surveyed, and buoyed at start and finish, before the arrival of the crews, and to agree to keep it clear of boats during the race; to build a Grand Stand at the finish, for which the price of admission shall not be more than fifty cents; to furnish a steamer to follow the race, whose speed shall be at least fourteen miles an hour, and which shall be ready for use, and at the service of the Regatta Committee, four...
...programme contained, besides the pieces already mentioned, the overture to Figaro's Hoehzeit, by Mozart; Lied ohne Worte, No. 18, by Mendelssohn; Symphonie II. of Haydn; and the Vogesen Grand March of Zikoff, given by the Pierian; Hunter's Joy, by Astholz; Galopp, by Bishoff; Spring Night, by Fischer; and Weimar's People's Song, by Liszt, given by the Glee Club...
...These men are good and true. They are the bone and sinew of our people. In them is found that grand American intellect which, unlike the faltering mind of the tyrant-ridden European, perceives the truth and will not wait to hear it disputed. In them is found that noble energy which advances the cause of truth when truth is once perceived, which turns a deaf ear to the sophistical arguments of unprincipled supporters of a state of things which the progress of the modern world has at last made unendurable, and which, having attained one great end, does...
...heavy dose of that uncongenial fluid whose presence - particularly in punch - is so certainly de trop; for this hallowed room was occupied about the year 1780 by Mr. Charles Angier, - may fairies waltz over his uncle's grave! As Mr. John Holmes so delightfully relates, "he conceived the grand idea of a perpetual entertainment and a standing invitation, and his table was ever supplied with brandy, wine, and crackers. The scheme is second only to the Everlasting Club of the Spectator. We take upon us, in the absence of historical evidence, to vouch for the constancy of Mr. Angier...
...hundred and seventy-six years of instruction. To be sure, her books will hardly rival, in the department of belles-lettres, the poetry and prose of Harvard's Lowell, Emerson, and Holmes; but in solid, substantial intellectual food of every grade she can make a truly grand display. And why not grade the Yale collection according to the intellectual effort necessary to understand the writings of her great men? Let it begin with the spelling-book of Webster, over which the children of a past generation forgot their toys in their enthusiastic efforts to master the rudiments of English orthography...