Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., might have been a pastor or Y. M. C. A. executive. But he learned the law and trod a narrow path into Congress 15 years ago. His domed forehead, neat eyeglasses and bland face are often seen presiding over the Committee of the Whole in the Speaker's absence for he is an excellent, patient parliamentarian. The other Michigan men usually vote as he suggests...
While this super drastic measure has been germinating, Italian Royalists have grown constantly more suspicious and uneasy, lest the real purpose of concentrating supreme power in the Fascist Grand Council prove to be eventual abolition of the Throne...
...himself at Bologna of a votive lamp in memory of those Blackshirts who fell in the creation and defense of the Fascist regime, make it unnecessary to give further demonstration that the rights of the Crown will not be endangered or touched by the special prerogatives given to the Grand Council, which legally thereby becomes the adviser to the crown and the regime...
...example. Mrs. Lewis: "Here, too, one sees the ballerinas from the opera, often very pretty creatures ... in sleazy silk dresses which could be bought in America for $9 at a department store sale." Mr. Dreiser: "Also ballerinas from the Grand Opera House, exquisite creatures in sleazy silk dresses which could be bought in Fourteenth Street, New York...
Rinehart never lived so wildly in the Egyptian hotel as he did that night in Harkness. . . . The Grand Central Station saw two hundred alumni, and wife, dance "Up the Street" by the light of red flares, until two policemen arrived. . . . At eleven o'clock in Cambridge the great drum of the band, accompanied by one trumpeter, marched Mount Auburn Street until Sunday made victory...