Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Webb, the tertium quid, is more unlike Chesterton than seems possible. Chesterton would address two street boys, a woman and a baby as if they were a grand demonstration. Webb would address the biggest demonstration as if he were telling the boots what to do with the luggage. . . . Chesterton's weaknesses encourage; Webb's powers humiliate. . . . Neither Chamberlain nor Chesterton would have a dog's chance if the Glasgow academic electorate were capable of appreciating Webb...
...tempted to say satisfactorily so. But the best story of this issue, despite the title "Her Daughter's Child," and despite the fact that it illustrates the undesirability of tacking bits of Mr. Arlen's style onto a Mrs. Freeman plot, is Donald Gibbs' story of Jane Fermier's grand-daughter who failed to arrive. The idea is worth a story and the characters decorating the idea are possessed of the breath of life. Mr. Gibbs has the good story-teller's instinct...
...still rather hard to imagine a moving picture house with a foyer that is strikingly similar to the great vestibule in the Grand Opera House in Paris, For here are the great marble pillars, the elegant promenoirs, the imposing balconies, and only the huge double staircase is lacking. The hush that pervades this, sacred place, is something between that of Napoleon's Tomb and Westminster Abbey. Patrons tiptoe incessantly up and down the heavy rugs in the corridors, looking strangely lost. Usually they are. It requires no end of time to find the theatre itself. Easy enough to run into...
...foyer are brass rails and stiff shirted attendants to keep the waiting people in place. There is no standing in line two or three blocks up a windy street far from the box-office. One waits for seats just as he waits for a train in the Grand Central Station...
...does not definitely appear which of these versions is the correct one. The Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Italy, Signor Torrigiana, has issued orders from Rome that all Masonic lodge meetings and activities are to cease throughout Italy "until the law abolishing secret societies shall be made void...