Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infer that Governor Johnson made a business of lecturing on the religious aspects of the Ku Klux Klan. As grand master of the Masonic Lodge in Oklahoma, he could not possibly have avoided discussing a subversive movement that almost wrecked Masonry in Oklahoma...
...crones and lasses who sell magazines from Parisian kiosks on the grand boulevards were elated last week when a lean stalwart priest, the Abbé Bethlehem, 57, was finally arrested after he had seized from the kiosks and torn up at least 300 copies of those magazines in which the feminine thigh is perennially displayed in frilly netherthings like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered...
...bellhop would have caught the evening's drift. Under the florid, jovial chin of an overgrown urchin chewing a cigar, for example, might have been sketched a domestic scene so provocatively platitudinous that no lettering would have been necessary to interpret it as "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?" or "When a feller needs a friend...
...rises to a cruel, dizzy pinnacle, from which he plunges voluntarily when his duties as procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time is in the grand, kaleidoscopic manner of Dumas, overcast with the mysticism of Jewry. Imported after a wide success in Europe, the book has not been equaled this season as a foursquare, full-blooded, Jehovian chronicle...
...Grand Guignol?Unrefined cruelty in horror plays...