Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present $1,500,000,000 of the American taxpayers' money. It is to fatten this monster and strengthen his arm, to sharpen his sword, to enlarge his cannon, to increase his war fleets, that it is proposed to settle with Italy in a manner that is nothing but grand larceny perpetrated upon the American people...
...moment had been planned with elaborate care. Early in the evening the hundred gentlemen motored to the Picayune jail where the man, one Harold ("Doc") Jackson, was held as an accessory in the murder of two government entomologists found dead near Picayune. The grand jury, which convicted one Jesse Favre for the same murder, had refused to return a bill against Jackson (a white man). A jury's stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door...
...neither vapid nor too expansive is proved by even momentary thought. For where would the world be without any one of the three. It was a kiss which sealed the doom of at least one martyr, which saved from doom at least one saint. And how many of the grand monuments of literature have subsisted on the strength of their purple passages, begermed but satisfying. As for powder puffs. Well, at least they have created a "Kiki" and have cured one defect in woman's beauty. For even Dido must have been chagrined to see the gleam from...
...occasion was the centennial celebration of the New York Central. In 1826 the New York legislature chartered the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad† to operate between the two upstate cities. In 1831 service began with the first run of the DeWitt Clinton, the tiny locomotive usually exhibited in the Grand Central Terminal. This day last week it was permitted to labor over its old run to solemnize the celebration. In .further rite a bronze tablet was unveiled in both the original terminal cities. The same evening the railway dignitaries and their guests were back in Manhattan dining...
Died "Sergeant Murphy," 16, first U.S. owned horse to win (1923) the British Grand National; at Bogside, Scotland, "destroyed after breaking a rear leg on a turn in the West Scotland Steeplechase. He was mourned by Stephen Sanford Jr., U.S. scion who purchased him for $10,000 and won $50,000, the Grand National Trophy Cup and many another pelf-filled purse...