Word: grand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...candidacy of John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, for the office of President of the A. F. of L. This move apparently marks the solidification of opposition to Samuel Gompers, who for thirty-nine years has held the office now coveted by Mr. Lewis. Labor's "grand old man", however, has declined to give up without a struggle. His supporters have resurrected the well-worn charge of a "slush fund", and are plying their trade with all the gusto of professional politicians. There will be "great doin's" in Denver before long. Factional strife was never so ominous...
...theatrical game, a company, blessed with no little talent and a house of proper size for the audiences which its work should attract, has nevertheless been unable to keep its head above water. It is a curious thing that Boston is not only incapable of supporting regular grand opera, but has witnessed the gradual disintegration of the Jewett Repertory Company without emotion, and now quietly lets what is undoubtedly the best light opera company we have had for some years go to pieces--chiefly from lack of interest on the part of the public. The goose that lays the golden...
Other features are a rolling skating act by the Sterlings; Bill Frawley and Edna Louise in a bright playlet "Seven A. M."; Marie and Mary MacFarland the American Grand Opera Stars; Lane and Hendricks in a skit called "Listen Archie"; and La Dora and Beckman, the pair of white birds, who are better on the wing than when warbling...
...Page avenue, where Lilly move when the war and her father's money came, the verging of the flat city with the clayey surrounding. country. Similarly. The cinema screen of the book's pages, are thrown flashes of all the aired sections of New York Washington Square, Grimace Park. Grand Central Station while it still held the informality of partial construction. Amsterdam avenue, Spuyten Devil, Riverside Drive, all the the part of the city except the canons of Wall street, are brought before the readers eyes by the vividness of Miss Hurst's works...
...desirability of having one, the objections to having one, and the means of having one, fails to accomplish more than to open the question for debate. The proposal seems to consist of the amalgamation of the best features of the Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta shows into one grand hilarious musical revue, which shall be representative of Harvard's best. But why stop Here? We might include the 47 Workshop--for a triangle certainluy needs a third side--to lend a sort of "high-brow" atmosphere to the under-taking. And the services of the Glee Club should be enlished...