Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact if it had been known that Wilson, whom Mr. Bondi describes as "law-respecting", had been previously indicted five times by the Middlesex Grand Jury on charges affecting his honesty, and had had the cases not pressed by William J. Corcovan, who is himself awaiting disbarment proceedings and trial for criminal actions, if this had been known, Washington would never have appointed...
Again the beauties of the grand humanitarian system of protecting and encouraging crime are manifested to a grateful public. The police were misguided enough to interfere with some young professionals for trying to break into a fur shop. One young man was shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted of burglary. His sentence was suspended. In the same year he brought forth fruits meet for repentance. Advancing gradually toward reform, he contented himself with petit larceny and was sent to the penitentiary therefor. Since then he had been arrested twice for grand larceny, once for burglary. The police have...
Another of these innocents, arrested in 1918 for grand larceny and discharged, was arrested for the same offense in 1921 and put on probation. Rearrested the same year, he was released on bail. Thus he has been twice stimulated to go on with his virtue. Parole, suspended sentence, probation, bail, easy discharge, all the bounties, so to speak, for the commission of crime, were offered to these precious innocents. These are instructive, but milk-mild, cases of that beneficent justice that spares the criminal and despoils the public. The police records are full of much more striking cases. Possibly this...
...Haffner ranks as a winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, one of the highest of architectural honors and was one of the foremost students at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he won numerous honors. Mr. Albert Ferran, also a Grand Prix winner, came from France with Mr. Haffner and will have charge of design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They have worked together before, and as the two schools are often engaged in "conjunctive problems" they will have an opportunity to continue their joint studies...
...should edit a volume of plays and call it "Plays of Old France" one would not expect to find there only the sensationalism of the Grand Guignol. But that is what Mr. Duran has done for the dramatic literature of old Japan. "I have selected", he writes, "scenes which to my mind are intensely thrilling and have all amount of sensationalism and horror of which we have never been aware". He has accomplished what he set out to do. These mangled dramas are thrilling and horrible to an unusual degree. But beside being selected from a very special field...