Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blowing up gigantic icebergs, warning ships of their presence and position on the treacherous Grand Banks, and keeping track of the exact position of any where from 50 to 100 of these engines of destruction is the duty of the International Observation and Ice Patrol Service...
...Illustrations, linoleum cuts by Leon Underwood, define and accentuate the grand flurry of action that the prose describes. Well imagined, brilliantly effected, they make it impossible to think of John Paul Jones without suddenly seeing him, fighting with a sailor at the Island of Tobago, firing a derisive musket in reply to a broadside, standing, like a lord, at the door of a ballroom where several ladies dance and one is bowing...
Among the exhibits being shown are figures of Javanese and Chinese actors, dancers, and portrait busts. Also of interest are two busts, one in white and the other in natural color, of the grand opera soprano, Amelita Galli-Curci...
...approximate agreement. For some years ago, when the latter announced their platform as nominees for President and Vice-President of the United States, in Smart Set, they advocated that all living members of the Roosevelt family be sent to Leavenworth. It would seem that the big-wigs of the Grand Old Party to a man would wish at least one were safely there now, for Trotsky preaching Bolshevism on the White House lawn could scarcely produce stronger consternation or disapprobation than that occasioned by Colonel Roosevelt's recent tirade against Governor Smith at the Republican State Convention in Rochester...
Saying that he hoped to see the royal regime re-established before his death, Count Albert Apponyi, (pronounced Ar'-pan-yee) 81, Grand Old Man of Hungary, said to pressmen at Geneva...