Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dominion," contributed to the contemporary scene a revival from its best days, its long-ago, pre-war (Civil War) days. Virginia revived its oldtime Governor's Ball in the Grays' Armory at Richmond. Everything was done, including smilax, minuets and no admission for whippersnappers until after the grand march, to make the affair savor of a vanishing grand manner...
...July, 1918, he crossed the ocean in a destroyer escorting a huge troop convoy. For two months he inspected all United States navy activities in the allied countries, as well as the Grand Fleet, the destroyer and sub-chaser forces, and the aviation and bombing stations. After visiting the allied front lines he returned to this country...
...special grand jury which has been investigating the frauds, conspiracies and murders attendant upon Chicago's primary election last April, last week brought indictments of a police lieutenant, eight racketeers and a large, dark figure who had seemed destined to gain fame in the councils of the nation-Oscar DePriest, first Negro alderman of Chicago, nominee of the G. O. P. to succeed the late famed Martin Barnaby Madden in the House of Representatives. It was not the first time Mr. DePriest had been indicted. In 1916 he was accused of handling tainted money, but the charge languished...
Chee-Chee. Such is the babyish title of an Eastern and elaborate musical comedy whose plot depends, not upon romance and cotton-wool, but upon the hero's efforts to avoid castration. The hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches...
...Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration. The critics were shocked, and the decent public, eager doubtless to see the sumptuous settings, crawled, in surreptitious droves...