Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another almost as potent. With solemnity Cardinal Hayes was inducted as the head of a new chapter in the order, to be known as the Knights of Malta in the United States, the first chapter in the Western Hemisphere. His Eminence was also notified that he had received the Grand Cross of Honor, highest rank of the order...
...Grand Jury of the District of Columbia for a second week withheld its action on the evidence that Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and friends had shadowed the petit jury which was trying him for criminal conspiracy, and the further evidence that Detective William J. Burns and aides had perjured themselves in an effort to impugn U. S. agents for jury-tampering (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). But the involved Fall-Sinclair oil scandals were not altogether without further lucubrations last week...
AGED TURKEY MOTHERS CHICKS: SUES FOR HEART BALM--FIFTY GRAND...
...threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...
Pianist Ethel Leginska has often disappointed her audiences by failure to appear. Ethel Leginska, as conductor, has always been at the appointed dais at the appointed time. Last week Conductor Leginska broke her record, failed her public. The San Carlo Grand Opera Company had announced that she would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled-and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket and flyaway head of Leginska...