Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached an age suitable for slave work. Reputedly, the grand Khan has seen the error of such ways with so blinding a suddenness that he freed all the Kalat slaves without compensation to their onetime masters, thereby precipitating a revolutionary movement which the Khan is now busy suppressing...
William Gillette, actor: "The ancient legend that actors are kindhearted, especially to one another, came to light again last week when I charged a play broker with grand larceny because he kept $1,000 which I had instructed him to give to Clare Kummer, actress and playwright. In 1925, Miss Kummer was in financial straits, when the opening of one of her plays was delayed. I wanted to assist her with $1,000, but I did not wish her to know it, so I used an intermediary...
Other Colleges. Among the 100 colleges and universities, with students totaling 36,000, to which were submitted these nine questions, Dartmouth stood forth as the least orthodox. In the grand total for the quiz, 87% of all answers were found to be "Yes." Such colleges as Providence, Pacific Union, Converse, Bridgewater, Carthage, Millsaps, Woffard, Shorter, Wheaton voted higher than 97% orthodox. But, such universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Brown, Chicago, Illinois, California, Stanford were not questioned by the International Advertising Association. Of the women's colleges, Wellesley was least orthodox with a vote of 75% affirmative...
...president of Rubel Coal & Ice Co. and worth $25,000,000. But withal he is not a nice man, declared sundry petty ice peddlers, when Mr. Rubel tried to freeze them out of business the past year by giving free ice to their customers. For that, the Kings County grand jury last week indicted him, and 28 people sued him for damages...
...Juan," "Great Lovers of History," "When His Love Grew Cold." Therefore, when his father provides him his first pair of long trousers, the adolescent breaks out in a romantic rash with tragic freckles. He mounts his trusty, high-spirited bicycle, dashes out to the park, there meets with a grande dame reposing in a Rolls-Royce while her chauffeur mends a flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses her seraph-faced admirer, whose innocence in the throes of the cosmic "urge...