Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suit for damages against Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich [both resident in Paris] is not primarily a struggle for money. It is an effort to clear my slandered father's name...
Prince Youssoupov boasts that he finally drew a revolver and put shot after shot into Rasputin. Even then the period before Death came was so appallingly long that the Grand Duke Dimitri is said to have rewound a phonograph 20 times in an effort to keep up the morale of all concerned. He later remarked with a shudder...
Albert Huey, 12, the grand little straight-shooter of Kenmore, Ohio, had never been more than 30 miles away from home until he went last week to Atlantic City, N. J., and won the marbles championship of the U. S. His rewards: a gold watch, an Indian headdress, blanket, stone tomahawk. Gladys ("Tomboy") Coleman, favorite of the galleries, was eliminated early in the tournament. But she received a silver loving cup, along with the 47 other participants, at a church service in the Apollo Theatre...
...Toussaint's best general was able to declare independence. Only 13 years before, all the land and 90% of the population was owned by a small oligarchy of whites. Now no white owned land, and all the havocked property passed to ex-slaves. Making himself emperor in the grand manner, Jean Jacques Dessalines governed these ignorants by the universally understood authority of force, but he was murdered for brutal abuse of power. Among his simultaneous successors was black King Christophe, most picturesque of Haitians...
Henry Ford was given the highest decoration of Rumania, the Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown for "outstanding achievements in manufacturing." The ceremony took place in Detroit, Andrew Popovich, Secretary of the Rumanian Legation, officiating...