Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Ingram of London plans a grand jury to try all poorly attended churches. Churches, once fashionable, are now surrounded by business houses, with a consequent falling off in attendance. Yet, because the buildings are venerable, and because moneys are tied up with the various properties, it is difficult to discontinue these churches...
Though Austria has been invited to the 1924 Olympic Games, the International Committee resolved to bar Germany. It was pointed out that the spectacle of German athletes in the Grand Parade of the Nations might stir more than the memories of those present in the Paris Stadium. Russia, too, was barred. By invitation of President Masaryk of the CzechoSlovak Republic, the Olympic Congress of 1925 will be held in Prague. Pope Pius granted an audience to the International Olympic Committee and praised their efforts for clean, moral sport...
...storm. Many music lovers observe with regret that no Gilbert and Sullivan operas come in this year's list. The Yeomen of the Guard didn't go very well with the public last year-owing doubtless to the fact that it approaches the severity of grand opera...
Died. Abbas Hilmi Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey under Sultans Abdul Hamid and Mohamet V, in Vienna. In command of a division during the Balkan War in 1912, he tried to stop the panic among his men at Kirkkilisseh by having them shot down...
...Grand Guignol (Paris) program includes a horror play The Crucified, and a broad farce The New Below, both of which have scored enormous successes. The Grand Guignol Theatre is known all over the world as the most spine-chilling chamber of theatrical horrors in existence. Every known variety of human agency is depicted by the Guignol players with blood-curdling realism...