Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Papal State territory, thus dotting the land with innumerable but innocuously minute territorial islands. Although Il Duce's assent was never indicated in the case of the latter scheme, he was reputedly withheld from agreeing to the former only by the most persistent objections of the Fascist Grand Council, the one body in Italy which has sufficient political might to impose a modicum of restraint upon Big Brother Benito...
...Last Command" Emil Jannings plays the role of the Grand Duke Sergius Alexandria, own cousin to the Czar, and commander of the Russian Army. The action of the play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without...
...Princess Anna Ilynski, and the Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas; a son, in London. From his father the child inherits the unlikely chance of someday becoming Tsar of Russia; from his mother, who was Miss Audrey Emery of Manhattan, the millions of his late grandfather, Leather King John Emery...
...certainly do not want my child to becomes a singer or an actor, because professionals lead a dog's life. An operatic career requires an iron constitution and means continual travelling around; people think we just have one grand time right along, but we really have to live almost exclusively for others, and our performances must come off whether we are dead or alive...
...present Straus Hall Common Room is artistically decorated with velvet art-squares, draperies, a grand piano, longes, and easy chairs, and with the additional features of having coffee served, magazines and periodicals to read, and logfires, it is expected that the place will prove more attractive to the students in that section of the Yard...