Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are not an unusual sight at the annual spring salon in the Grand Palais, where all the artists of Paris carry their best work of the past year for public exhibition. Yet such was the number of undressed ladies that one exasperated critic went back to his newspaper and wrote, "It isn't a salon, but a bedroom...
...immediate result of last week's elections was to precipitate fresh agitation for the resignation of Ziwar as Premier and the installation of a Wafd Ministry. The Wafd's "grand old man," Saad Zaghlul Pasha, 66 (TIME, May 24), has, however, suffered marked ill health for some time and, despite his personal popularity, has failed thus far to rally Egyptians against the British with sufficient solidarity to force his return?as Premier...
...Significance, the grand thing, is to have made Walt known as a natural force is known, by its unhurried yet manifest effects?by putting the reader into the boots of people who knew and felt Walt, bringing his big frame and nature so close that psychological terms are irrelevant and it is unnecessary even to quote the poems to show why they were written, what they mean. If there is a mite of unction spread through Author Rogers' pages, it is not obtrusive nor out of place in a book that is bound to be laid warmly and strongly...
...morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some of the 500-odd "nighthawks" present, Mr. Carroll had filled a wheeled bathtub with champagne made zestier by having a nubile nymph in Carroll...
Married. Cyril Hume, novelist (Wife of the Centaur, Cruel Fellowship), to Miss Charlotte Dickinson of Grand Rapids, after meeting her for the first time at the wedding of Novelist Bronson (see above), at which he functioned as best man and she as honor maid. Novelist Hume's first wife, the onetime Jane Barbara Alexander, died last year in Florence, Italy, (TIME, June 1, MILESTONES...