Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grand whoop greeted the final curtain, and among the crowd which poured out there were many who were loud in their denunciation of the attitude of the students...
...movies will be chiefly Glacier Park, of the animal life in Yellowstone Park, and of Mt. Rainier. As an innovation, color pictures of the Grand Canyon will be shown. There will also be a Harold Lloyd comedy. "Never Weaken." This is a re-issue of one of the first of the comedies which made Harold Lloyd famous as a comedian. Music for the evening will be furnished by Bowers' Venice-Lido Orchestra, conducted by R. S. Bowers...
...period, Bartram's 'Travels in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, etc.;' extracts dealing with alligators, snake-birds, Indians and strange plants. There are references to a cave with a bubble of ice, taken from a contemporary history of Hindustan; and the habits of astronomers in the Grand Observatory in Peking...
...anything can put a damper on the vagabonding spirit, it is a cold. Rain helps a little. That grand New England institution of the boardwalk has its merits and its cracks. While a chair and "Gandle Follows His Nose", the book which Heywood Broun claims to have read more often that any other novel in the language--possibly because he wrote it--, may wreck the best intentions in the world...
...Cadman--and Professor Murdock may deliver a genuine obituary. But for my aesthetics--at noon, I mean to wander through the stone and plaster that line the corridors of Robinson Hall to hear Professor Edgell in Fine Arts 4a, discourse on Ammanati, della Porta, and early masters of the grand baroque which fills the heel of Italy...