Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed that the loss of revenue for the fiscal year 1925-26? will be only $208,000,000, and for 1926-27 only $307,000,000. So it is not believed the Treasury will face a deficit. The chief items which go to make up the grand reduction...
...were sitting back of me recently at the Metropolitan. The "Grand Duchess and the Waiter" was hors d'oeuvre to Miss America and the place was crowded. I had seen Miss America before--so--I rather centered on the movie--tried to--I couldn't. The two ladies behind me were chewing gum which clicked with a ding-dong rhythm against their plebian palates, monotonous, eternal. I shuddered. Came a voice, "She loves him but she don't want him to know it--see." The comedy followed, a Mack Sennett-- "That's not a real mustache...
...Grand Duchess and the Waiter. Adolph Menjou is occupied in an unusually successful light comedy of Continental manners. The Duchess is broke in Paris. The waiter is a nobleman in disguise. How they found each other out is deft and feathery and excellent amusement...
...these were splendid, well-nigh perfect dogs. But when, on the second day, the winners in every breed paraded into the ring so that the judges could choose from among them a champion of champions, an Ace-King of the show, the grand prize went to none of these. It went to an obscure little white...
...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...