Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somebody has decided to "get" Mr. Cohen "good". Last week a Federal Grand Jury indicted him on charges that he is involved in "a gigantic rum conspiracy". The charge specifies a single instance in which 4,250 cases of rum were allegedly smuggled in from Havana with Mr. Cohen's connivance...
...house fills, glitters, every glitter caught and sifted, anatomized, dissected by high power opera glasses. Potent heads of distinguished families deign to perform the nod of grand grandees. Fierce caballeros bristle, melt before shrill senoritas, bristle again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...
...Corpron, a U. S missionary, was seized by soldiers near Gaishow charged with carrying concealed weapons because he had a revolver on his launch in which he was traveling on the Grand Canal. His passport was scorned, his hands were tied behind his back, he was beaten and jeered at. Finally an officer gave him a grilling examination and he was released, outraged...
...brink of the Grand Canyon, the poet looks
...those who hate plays in hot weather there are the following samples of woman and song: Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies, The Student Prince, Lady, Be Good; Grand Street Follies, Artists and Models, George White's Scandals, Garrick Gaieties...