Word: grand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hadj Ahmed-el-Mokri, son of the Sultan's Grand Wazir (Prime Minister), was stricken with typhus among the first and lay in a dying condition throughout the week. For any member of the potent Mokri family to be thus stricken would have caused a sensation throughout Morocco, but the general anxiety was made acute by the fact that Ahmed was the favorite nephew of famed and beloved "Mokri the Blind," for years the incorruptible and discerning examiner of all maidens put forward by their families or tribes as candidates for the Sultan's harem...
...patriots sat down to compose letters to Secretary of State Kellogg, demanding that Boy-Ed be refused admission to the U. S., shameless journalists recalled an unwitting practical joke upon the U. S. Secret Service and upon Boy-Ed himself perpetrated by Grand Admiral von Tirpitz...
Meanwhile Miss Virginia Mackay-Smith, daughter of Bishop Mackay-Smith of Washington, fretted and grew petulant because the dashing and long socially popular Captain Boy-Ed insisted that he had not yet received permission from his superior, Grand Admiral Tirpitz, to marry her and take her back with him to Germany. Boy-Ed sailed without Miss Mackay-Smith, who was obliged to wait for the War to end before hastening to marry him in Germany...
...Olympic games two summers ago, another Greek sculptor fashioned a discobolus, along more authentic lines, with models who knew all the facts and intricacies of discus-throwing. He entered it in world competition at Paris, won the grand prize. Last week the statue was unveiled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a gift to the city by one Ery Kehaya, who designated it "an expression of gratitude from Greeks living in New York to the city that has given them opportunity." The bronze athlete is the work of Costas Dimitriadis, famed Hellene...
...express elevators that fly up like harnessed rockets and drop down like oiled meteors. Lounge rooms, gorgeously decorated, allure business-weary limbs with divans and sofas and curving love-chairs; while upstairs, opening upon corridors carpeted with rugs into which feet sink as into perfumed snow, bridal suites and grand suites and supersuites await their imminent occupants with tapestries of many various colors, and furniture beyond the dreams of Park Ave. All these, the gilt dining-rooms clotted with music, the cool oasis of the lobby, and the long line of brilliantly-lighted cages wherein clerks work busily, adding...