Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poker, drank no liquor, made few friends. And Mrs. Coolidge, who had come with him from the duplex apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, for which they had been paying twenty-seven dollars a month all their married life, and who moved with him into one of Washington's rather grand but noisy hotels, had to work hard, those first seventeen Washington months of the Vice-Presidency, keeping him awake after bedtime in Northampton at nine-thirty...
...have listened to a great deal of public and very caustic criticism of Tammany, and I asked myself the question: How can anything live in this country 139 years that is not all right? . . . Worthy Grand Sachem, I could speak on this platform for an hour and a half on the record and history of the Tammany Society as dedicated to the principles set forth in the Constitution of this Government. ... I will conclude with a congratulation and thanks to the society of which I am proud to be a member and an officer...
...land-lubbing Cock; but for one day last week Frenchmen raised the three-spiked Trident of sea power. For once the name of "Admiral of the Fleet"*Henri Salaun loomed on a momentary par with that of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The occasion was twofold: first a review of the Grand Fleet, off Havre, and second the inauguration, at Havre, of the new docks and deep water basin-a prodigious puddle capable of accommodating simultaneously the two largest ships in the world, the Majestic and Leviathan...
...Felix is coming to get me. You must tell nobody about it. I am to go to his house incognito to a reception that he and the Grand Duke Dimitri have organized...
...GRAND STREET FOLLIES OF 1928? Albert Carroll and other impersonators thumbing their noses at the season's diversions (TIME, June...