Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every few moments the guests sprang up, raised brimming glasses toward the white oriflamme of the Admiral's forked beard, and downed a deep health to the man whose famed policy of "sea-frightfulness" brought the U.S. into the War. Smiling pinkly behind his white whiskers, the Grand Admiral toped in response to each toast, declared at last to correspondents with perfect poise and pontifical gravity: "Despite the stark materialism of the present day, there still remains in Germany the germ of something that will get us out of the slough...
Will Always Wins. The grand legacy of Marshal Foch to future Generalissimos, and the touchstone of all his victories, is a psychological concept of warfare which he stated thus...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., Laborer George McGowan dreamed that a wall fell on him and crushed him. Impressed, he told his employers about it but went on with his job of building a concrete wall in an excavation. The wall fell, crushed but did not kill Laborer McGowan...
Half a million persons, transported by boats, motor cars, trains and airplanes, gathered last week around the Aintree racing course, shadowed by the murk of Liverpool. They watched 16 horses charge, as though in a Cossack attack, at the start of the Grand National Steeplechase. Horses stumbled. Horses straddled hedges. Horses fell into ditches. Ten reached the finish line at the end 856 yards. Leading them was one the name of which the half-million scarcely knew−a 100 to 1 shot, owned by a woman, ridden by a former sailor−Gregalach II, a chestnut gelding...
Prophets immediately linked Blair, Bank of America and Chase National in a grand merger. But there were no indications whatever that Chase's potent Albert Wiggin contemplated the loss of his identity...