Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the grand ballroom of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, last week strode Chicago's Mayor, William Hale Thompson. Thereupon a band of Chicago high school students (on special vacation for the day) played the Mayor's campaign anthem, "America First, Last and Always," and a sextette of uniformed Chicago policemen harmonized on the same hymn...
...flood was, indeed, in its last stages?no grand finale but a slow seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. A comparatively small area in the extreme southern portion of the Atchafalaya River basin?was still experiencing tense moments, but no major levees had "gone out" and even in northern Louisiana the waters were falling...
...roads that lead to Rome, none seems surer for artists than the one that passes through the Yale School of Fine Arts. In 1925 and 1926, Yale art students won in the Prix de Rome scholarship competitions conducted annually at the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. Last month two Yale graduate students won Prix de Rome scholarships, in painting and sculpture (TIME, May 16). Last week the Prix de Rome judges decided the 1927 competition in architecture and again the winner was a Yale student-Homer Fay Pfeiffer of Kansas City, Kan., graduate of the University of Illinois. For his design...
...Williamsport, Pa., and in Collinwood (outskirt of Cleveland), two little bands of workmen have been holding regular meetings after shop hours. They are employes of the New York Central R. R., and "bands" is meant musically. The week of June 12 the men will take their instruments to Grand Central and LaSalle Street stations, respectively, and serenade the Twentieth Century Limited as it starts out June 15 on its Silver (25th) Anniversary...
...glamor from a favorite field of writers of boys' stories of the Putnam Hall variety. It marks the passing of romantic, if cardboard, figures--the Big Man in the school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked...