Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doheny and Fall are again free men. What seems to have been a fairly able jury unanimously acquitted them of charges of conspiracy. Mr. Doheny, leaving the court, delivered to reporters an heroic on the unbesmirched patronym he now passes on to his grand-children. True, Senator Heflin of Alabama shouted, "All law-ab ding citizens will hang their heads in shame at the verdict", but that was party politics, says the New York Tribune...
...impressive work of the revered scholar, administrator, man. It was, however, a particularly unhappy reflection upon the present state of the civilized world that the newspapers, and newspapers print what the people want, gave undue attention to the death of a cinema hero, with the result that the Grand Old Man of America was not given space and tribute by the daily press which he without question deserved as material tribute from the masses. A large number of the editorials on Dr. Eliot were mere commentaries on the fact that enough space had not been accorded the event...
...President Eliot at his last official University function. It is, therefore, fitting that this Memorial Issue contain some account of the celebration on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Not only did that day impress itself upon the minds of the students as a day of homage to the Grand Old Man of America, the man to whom they owed thanks for their great University, but also as the day on which the most splendid ovation in history was accorded an educator. It was then shown that the nation valued with true sincerity the services of a private citizen working...
...Saturday night the Harvard workshop, those who had written and acted, as well as the "nervous system" of the Shop, the stage workers and designers, the invited audience of old 47 days invaded New Haven with purely academic and scholastic interest. We came for a grand reunion, to see friends and fellow-enthusiasts of some years ago, but especially to show Mr. Baker and Yale how pleased we were to see what we had worked and hoped for put into practice...
...content with the Ibis bird, the Lampoon collected a menagerie for the week-end festivities incidental to their first barn dance. A turkey and a pig, were the guests of honor at the grand affair, thus breaking the ancient traditions, which admitted within the sacred precincts only humans, editors, and the Ibis himself...