Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depth of 4 inches was brought 865 miles to be given to the President and Mrs. Coolidge? Answer: a cherry pie (containing 5,000 selected cherries) carried to White Pine Camp by Wallace H. Keep, college mate of Mr. Coolidge at Amherst, an honest publicity errand for the Grand Traverse Cherry Growers of Michigan. ¶Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg flitted in and out at White Pine Camp during most of the week. He conferred with the President on Mexico and the World Court, left for Plattsburg, N. Y., where he made a speech on disarmament, said that...
...Richard Wagner, who first triumphed in Gemany just 50 years ago. The old woman sees onetime King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, onetime Field Marshal Ludendorff, but few others. Germany did not always pay homage to her husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down...
...right or are you wrong? I'm going to put down what you say.' "Roy said, 'I don't know what to do.' Then turning his eyes toward Heaven he said, 'put it down I'm saved.' "We held a grand and glorious meeting then and were living on the Lord's love when they found us." There indeed was material for one more of the half-hymn-half-folksongs that Kentucky mountaineers sing in their cabins to the soft thrumming of guitars.* They sing the death of Floyd Collins...
Million Surplus Finance Minister Reinhold displayed pridefully last week a grand total of 674,000,000 marks of taxes collected during July (about $160,500,000). To meet his conservatively planned budget schedule, the Herr Minister needed only 570,000,000 marks, found himself with a tidy million surplus (about...
...ranking subordinate, Inspector Harry E. Laukhart, was bound over to the Trumbull County grand jury last week, accused of accepting a $40 bribe to ignore town speakeasies. †The cost of U. S. government, federal, state and local, was $10,975,000,000 last year (N. Y. Trust Co.'s The Index, July, 1926). In 1924 it was $10,252,000,000, which meant 16% of the income of all the people, or $91.47 for each one, or $400 for each family [American Exchange-Pacific National Bank (Manhattan) August monthly letter...