Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slang phrase meaning "In act in the grand manner," used by fresh water collegians, vaudeville actors, street sheiks...
...question is: are the men who flogged Lawyer Brown and these other Toombs County dwellers real or spurious Klansmen? Grand Dragon Forrest, of course, says they are not. He adds another $500 reward to Governor Walker's $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the leader of the floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush...
...never wants to return to England except to visit friends. She enjoys the Russian movies and shows and has just received a cheap ticket to the first night grand opera ballet. The children are already talking Russian, and the 9-year-old girl is also learning German and music...
...week a greater crowd than ever before crammed its way into this pillared space, now swept of every vestige of merchandise. They had come to hear a concert, attend a reception given by Rodman Wanamaker in honor of Thaddeus Rich, concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the first grand chord of the organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent, as 15,000 disembodied spirits straining for the trumpet call of the angels. They heard the famed Wanamaker instruments, Stradivari, Guarnarius, Quadagnini, Montaguana, Gofriller . . . played in massed unison...
...Revere Beach and that time old Aunt Kate took me to the top of the Woolworth Building. And yet here I was high above the waters of Champlain, working my way even higher. And then it snowed, snowed with the fury of ten unhappy children and a spanked grand-child...