Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distance and became part of it immediately. What would draw a crowd on Harvard Square? Your answers must be written legibly and in English, I do not read the papers. Well this time it was a monkey and an Italian. The Italian had a classic profile, a grand air, and a hurdy-gurdy. The monkey had two tricks, a dirty hat, and a leash. No one slept at the lecture...
...turf. Accordingly, the proposed 5% tax on betting of all sorts included in the new Churchill budget (TIME, May 3) roused the ire of Britons last week, chiefly because it will tend to raise the price of England's most popular pasteboard commodity: a betting ticket on the Derby, Grand National or other "turf classic." Within the House of Commons, notables waxed wrathful at daring, chubby "Winnie" Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer...
...opened the "Faust in Modern Dress" as presented last week by the Grand Opera Society in London. No liberties had been taken with the plot that Gounod chose from the first part of Goethe s tragedy. Mephistopheles made Faust live on, enticed him with promises of pleasures, with visions of fair Marguerite, restored him to youth. There were the same choral festivities with students, soldiers, peasants and burghers, the same stout Valentine, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's honor. Marguerite spun her stint, disported herself with jewels and flowers, repulsed Faust, then yielded. The prison scene...
...these esoteric cults are sincere in their beliefs, although many of their exploiters are out and out charlatans. For dabblers in spiritualism, regular supply houses advertise "zodiac rings," "Arabian Sheik rings," "talismanic jewelry, charms, pendants, brooches, rings, pins, bracelets," hardwood ouija boards, gazing crystals, "destiny charts," "astrological guides,"; "Grand Imperial Incense." "prayer incense, collapsible trumpets, aluminum trumpets, "luminous bands" and a host of other accessories...
...influence of the New York World, which he founded, unmistakably persists in the grand literary prizes which Joseph Pulitzer established. So this year the gold medal for "most distinguished and meritorious service rendered by an American newspaper" was awarded to a brave, obscure journal, which had dared in Georgia to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, the antievolutionists, the lynchers. That paper was the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer...