Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Angora. Algiers looks prosperous. Hyde Park of a Sunday is changed; British anti-Socialists, Fascists and Gospelers replace the 'lunatic fringe' that used to orate there. Nearly 100 cats live free wild lives at the base of Trajan's Column, Rome. The clerk at the Grand Hotel, Paris, can hold a telephone in each hand and turn the pages of his ledger with his elbow. King George quotes Cromwell; his grandmother drove around a block in Manchester to avoid passing Cromwell's statue...
...leading apologist for the Teapot Dome Lease." Without assuming to discuss with you whether or not this article is libelous, I challenge your attention to the fact that it is grossly inaccurate: in fact, it is absolutely untrue. I had the honor of representing Senator Newberry professionally at the Grand Rapids trial, before the Supreme Court and before the committee of the Senate. He was not "driven" from the Senate. On the contrary, the Senate voted that he was entitled to his seat. He resigned from the Senate about eight months after it had adjourned. I need not discuss with...
...Flanders was a main contribution to the saving of Ypres (pronounced eepre)-which the British Tommy called "Wipers"-and the Channel ports and helped to hold up the mighty advance of the German military machine. Marshal Ferdinand Foch has written of French: "In him Great Britain found a grand soldier. He kept his troops up to the level of Wellington." John Denton Pinkstone French was born in Kent of Irish parents. He began his career at an early age by joining the Navy, in which his father was a captain. Four years later, he transferred to the Army, joined...
...Columbus, Ohio, a Princeton Theological Seminary professor, Dr. Charles R. Erdman, received, by election, the post of Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. It was the happy ending of a year of personal unpleasantness.* When the General Assembly of the Church met at Grand Rapids, Mich., a year ago, Dr. Erdman was the leading candidate. A Conservative, he was supported by Conservatives. He was also supported by Liberals - for it is the strategy of Liberals not to seek the office of Moderator for one of 'themselves, but to have the office filled by a man who will maintain...
...shrill, less honed, than in her last U. S. performances. Her acting was passionate. A huge audience of French and U. S. citizens, with a sprinkling of Italians, paid 200 francs ($10.00) for their seats-the highest price ever asked for an operatic performance in Paris. ¶The Paris Grand Opera Company, it is rumored, will give for the first time in more than 30 years Rossini's Barber of Seville for the debut of Mme. Luella Melius, U. S. coloratura soprano. Many times has M. Rouche, Director of the Opera, attempted to revive this work; on each occasion...