Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Duke of Wellington celebrated in his Piccadilly home, last week, his 80th birthday. As a grandson of the "Iron Duke" he holds the highest foreign titles possessed by any British peer, is the Netherlandic Prince of Waterloo and a Portuguese Knight of the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, and ranks in Spain as a Grandee of the First Class. His 19,200 English acres bring him far more in revenue, of course, than the 99 year-old tribute of little Belgium...
Above stairs lay the Generalissimo-the man who won the War if any one man did-dying by inches. Pathos was not in the simple room but instead a grand vitality, a dauntless courage...
...Oslo last week by His Excellency the U. S. Minister, Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn.; 2) from the city of Oslo, a set of books by Norwegian authors; 3) from the city of Stocknolm, a diamond tiara of 956 stones; 4) from the Norwegian Society, a Grand piano, especially requested by Princess Märtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian Government, a silver punch bowl; 7) from the Norwegian Storting a pair of silver candlesticks and probably an increase in Crown...
...unperturbed, unperturbable. Beneath, a swarm of writhing, punching, scratching, squealing, black-skinned creatures did battle with four white spectres of the law. Confusion reigned, skulls were rapped and knuckles barked; black men screeched and white men cursed. . . . The stars were those that stud the ceiling of Manhattan's Grand Central Station. The battle was between Negro porters and detectives who had raided a "policy" (lottery) game...
...many as 60 bars, some as long as the Tiajuana bar, are erected each year for temporary use at Aintree, England, scene of the Grand National Steeplechase (TIME, March 18). Other bars which claimed to be the longest in the world were: the Atlantic Bar of Butte, Mont., where 24 bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest...