Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis-le-Grand in the heart of the Latin Quarter, where he had gone upon invitation to distribute prizes, ex-Premier Edouard Herriot rose to address the assembled boys. He got no further. Young Royalists of the organization Action Franchise whistled, howled, cat-called. In vain, the police attempted to restore order and in the end the ex-Premier was forced to leave. Outside the Lycée, the same demonstration was carried on. Several arrests were made, but to no avail and it was not until he entered the Chamber of Deputies that he was cheered: "Vive Herriot! Down...
Maneuvering around two grand pianos which took up most of the available floor space of a small Manhattan apartment, a young Jew last week went about the business of packing a suitcase. Old newspapers-the inseparable, useless adjuncts of this operation-lay here and there in crumpled disorder, but two, each containing an item which had been circled with a pencil mark, reposed on a table. The first item related how Composer George Gershwin, famed jazzbo, had recently returned from Europe; the second stated that this Gershwin, when he had finished the piano concerto which Dr. Walter Damrosch has commissioned...
...dining-room, a grill, a reception hall, a ladies' room, a croquet lawn, a smoking room, the only colored golf professional in the U. S.- Robert E. Lee. These details appeared in the press when a controversy between the officers of the club (led by George E. Bates, Grand Secretary of the Negro Elks) against a realty company, which has financed the enterprise, was settled in favor of the latter...
Summer evenings are best endured with the aid of the following follies: Rose-Marie, The Student Prince, Engaged, Artists and Models, Grand Street Follies, Louie the 14th; Lady, Be Good; George White's Scandals, Garrick Gaieties...
Then to the palace in horse carriages, guarded by sailors and naval cadets. King Haakon was effusive, bestowed decorations. Then to the Grand Hotel, all traffic in the streets coming to a halt while the cortege passed. Out on a balcony, Amundsen smiled his thanks; soon after, he sat down with the others to a handsome luncheon furnished by the Aero Club. More speeches; The Star Spangled Banner in honor of Pilot Ellsworth...