Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, news came from the royal palace that the new Belgian princess would be named Josephine Charlotte Ingeborg Elizabeth Marie Jose Marguerite Astrid. King Albert is to be godfather and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, godmother. Foreign rulers, including the Pope, wired congratulations...
...snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns to Manhattan...
...freedoom, and the young wanderer doffed his assumed naivete and reveled. From cops, and robbers over the back fences in the morning to surreptitions ice cream cones at the corner (on uncle's nickels) in the afternoon, and the glorious splash in the tub at night, Saturday was a grand day of Back To Nature...
...England states, giving entertainments at summer colonies. Performances similar in tone and appearance to Tony Sarg's Marionettes are given with a series of scenes of variety and humor. Miniature sketches of a full orchestra, with a nine inch Koussevitsky conducting, a tiny Paderewski playing a grand piano less than a foot above the floor, and the Old Testament, provide the student entertainers with their material...
...second visiting debater is Andrew Haddon of the University of Edinburgh. Haddon is 23 years old and was born at Howick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He is a grand-nephew of J. B. Selkirk, one of the best known of Scotland's minor poets, while his father is Lieutenant Colonel Haddon, a lawyer by profession, and a soldier by virtue of a lifelong connection with the Volunteer and Territorial Armies...