Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fellows at a world convention in Houston, Tex., mourned a 68,176 decrease of membership in 1928, but were consoled when their Grand Sire told them, "President Hoover is an Odd Fellow...
Called by romantic French reporters Le Grand Inquisiteur, and Le Sherlock Holmes Parisien, M. Bayle played in real life that familiar character of all good murder mysteries, the scientific detective. Appearing seldom in public, he spent all his working hours in his laboratory squinting through microscopes, blinking at sputtering X-ray lamps, scrutinizing bloodstains. Elaborately indexed in his bureau were the record cards of nine million criminals, five million Bertillon photographs, a halfmillion fingerprints...
...open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
...Wilda Bogert Chamberlin (Clarence Duncan Chamberlin flew the Atlantic two years ago) : "Ladies who want a grand passion had better stick to their businessmen. . . . Children are not for a flyer's wife." The Chamberlins live mostly at hotels. Mrs. Carrie Williams (Roger Quincy Williams flew the Atlantic this summer) : "For a whole year at a time I hardly see Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care...
Scholar Abbe Niles definitely fixes the father of "blues" and therefore grand- father of all jazz as William Christopher Handy, colored, first (1910) composer in the national idiom...