Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smartly waxed." How, in the name of common sense does this latter connect up with or throw light upon his uniqueness? When the editor, or is it office boy? writes these biographical sketches does he not have available any significant data? Every time TIME has referred to this Grand Old Man of Arizona it has focused attention to these features rather than to the great contribution Hunt has made to civilization...
...final quintessence of absolutism was achieved by the Fascist Regime, last week, when Signor Benito Mussolini drove through the Senate by a vote of 181 to 19 the new Constitutional amendment (TIME, Nov. 21) which makes the Fascist Grand Council an integral unit of the State, with power virtually to decide who may and who may not run for election to Parliament...
...McHenry County, Ill., a dog-catcher was the only one of 115 Republican public servants to escape indictment by the Grand Jury for mixing crime with politics. The indictments were held back until after election...
...grand pageant of assumption of the Imperial Station proceeded amid ancient things and ceremonies whose very names and meanings are untranslatable. However, since the Tenno did sit upon what amounted to a chair, one may stretch a point and call the occasion his Enthronement...
...Occidentals understand that idea - there would be several more days of pomp, during which the Tenno would personally inform the Sun Goddess what had occurred and offer her with filial piety the sacred rice (boiled). Finally, with hearts uplifted and pure, Emperor and Empress will participate in three joyous Grand Banquets, visit the Shrines of the Imperial Ancestors, and lastly open the national Chrysanthemum Party, gayest fête of the Japanese year...