Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their rabbis, and in the blood-kinship with David of a line of rabbis now represented by Isaac Friedman's 17-year-old son, is essentially mystical and emotional in character. Orthodox Jews regard the cult as moribund, but admit its value and influence in the past. "Chief Grand Rabbi," say the orthodox, is meaningless ; as well say "King Kleagle Rabbi...
...Manhattan, last week, counsel for the New York Herald-Tribune employed much the same arguments used by Mr. Baker and his colleague, to win acquittal for their clients before Judge John C. Knox and a Federal Grand Jury. Whereupon the prosecution (i. e., the Government), in order finally to test the law, had the Herald-Tribune reindicted, using as grounds the tax figures of individuals other than those named in the first indictment. The re-indictment was quashed perfunctorily by Judge Knox, as the prosecution intended it should be; and the Government was free to appeal this second case...
...York Evening Post, ancient landmark of the U. S. publishing panorama, approached the end of its first year under the mastery of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. It had been a year such as the Post never knew before?a year of the grand manner...
...olden times?when Alexander Hamilton penned its editorials, when William Cullen Bryant purified its diction, and later, when E. L. Godkin and Carl Schurz were its brilliant "fighting" editors?the Post had a grand manner more than once...
...different order is the grand manner of Mr. Curtis. He has ransacked the ends of the world to fill the Post with daily tidings from afar. He has fattened and sleekened every page, stinting nothing to give his creature an air of brisk, full-blooded opulence and suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse...