Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will of the District of Columbia approached each other from opposite directions. The President swerved an inch; the District swerved a yard and collision was averted. The matter in disagreement was the inaugural ceremony. The President wished it to be very quiet; the District wished it to be very grand, in order that a big crowd might be drawn and business improved. Last week, the Washington Inaugural Committee announced that it would return to the donors the greater part of the $60,000 to $100,000 that had been subscribed for the celebration. The President, after witnessing the inauguration...
...sister married the German Count Albert von Quadt, onetime Charge d'Affaires of the German Embassy at Washington?; thus, on that score alone, De Martino was well known in the Teuton grand monde. He had, from August, 1914, until Italy entered the War in 1915, constantly, loudly and successfully counseled Italy to abandon the Triple Alliance and join the Triple Entente. On this account, too, he was well known in Germany?and well hated. His position called, it was said, for the utmost "dignity, tact, patience and firmness", all of which qualities he showed superlatively...
Long before Chaucer began to build the English language, long before Buonarroti sketched his plans for St. Peter's, a British islander named Nicholas Breakspear became priest, then Abbot, then Cardinal, then Legate, then Pope, assuming the grand Roman Imperial name of Adrian (Hadrian) IV. And never before or since has an islander been Pope...
...rapidly increasing his fortune, Gailo has confounded those who declare that no company can give grand opera in the U. S. at $3 a ticket and avoid bankruptcy (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923). He has kept other irons simmering. He managed an unsuccessful English light-opera company, built around De Wolf Hopper; he managed the eternal Eleonora Duse in her last U. S. tour; the incomparable Anna Pavlowa has been under his direction. Next year, he will manage the Manhattan Police Band...
...Stafford '26, Frothingham and Keleher are team-mates on the piano and will render a number of selections together, while Stafford will display his already famous abilities as a prestidigitator. With this considerable variety of talent, which is expected, the second act promises to be more like a grand revue than a musical comedy...