Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...empire. I have known many men of moral and physical courage-but none more personally chivalrous and brave than the now exiled Kaiser." Not content with this panegyric of Wilhelm II, Mr. Bigelow paused to eulogize the onetime Kaiser's grandsire, Wilhelm I: "He was a grand old monarch, that first Emperor William-Der Greise Kaiser as his people fondly called him. Nor can I recall without emotion how myself and other boys of my age, whether American or German-how proud we were when privileged merely to see his venerable form when he might be walking...
When ticket No. 17,229 fell from the ticket globe no stir was occasioned; but an instant later, amid a deadly hush, the $2,500,000 Grand Prize disc was seen to have rattled down...
...grand prize number ended in "9," all lucky tickets ending in "9" received a prize. Since the lottery tickets were divided into 20 parts salable at $14 each, the winnings on a given ticket were often split still further by private clubs whose members held each a still smaller fractional share...
...opera sung in English (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...
...could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know. Me, I've got everything-grand kids and a wonderful wife and this...