Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington, Atlanta and Cleveland aren't likely to show as much appreciation of grand opera as Baltimore has just shown. The audiences went wild. I hear that in Cleveland only the foreign born and the nouveau riche go to the opera...
...addressed the United Press (TIME, May 2). ¶ In a Safe in the office of the U. S. Department of State reposes an object which all good Democrats hope will be taken out in 1929, which many good Republicans trust will remain undisturbed till 1933. The object is the Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Cespedes,* famed among Cubans as the Victoria Cross is famed among British, the Iron Cross among Germans. President Gerardo Machado of Cuba, lately a presidential guest (TIME, May 2), wished to bestow the cross upon President Coolidge, but found that...
...height. Blue-eyed, ruddy-faced, bushy-mustached, he looks the sea-dog's part, is brave and modest, has been termed a "huge, friendly fire-eater." As Commander of the U. S. S. New York he received the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" with the British Grand Fleet in the North Seas. In 1918 hs became Rear Admiral; in 1925 he was made Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Battle Fleet, succeeding Admiral Samuel S. Robison, his brother-in-law. Admirals Hughes and Robison both married daughters of the late Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark...
...Connecticut team furnished little opposition in any way for the Crimson ballplayers. Three Wesleyan pitchers were pounded for a grand total of 16 hits, numbering in the collection a home run, three triples and a double. Five errors coming at stages in the game when they would prove most costly did not help the losers to keep down the Crimson total...
...those proponents of the higher criticism some sort of answer can be given, verging, indeed, upon that oddity of entities, truth. These weary, worried participants in the Memorial Hall Grand Guignol have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they have learned how intelligently and adequately to read, how to orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired...