Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other preballot features of the Grand Old Party's grand old party included the following...
...York City politicians dropped into the Board of Elections office one morning last week to shake the hand of an old man there presiding. His name was John R. Voorhis; his age, 98. The occasion for congratulations was his 17th anniversary as Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall...
...Grand Sachem Voorhis, by no means feeble, thanked everyone and announced that he hoped to pass his 100th birthday with Alfred Emanuel Smith in the White House. He also said: "Everybody talks about Tammany . . . but hardly anyone seems to know. To listen to them talk you'd think that the Tammany Society was one and the same thing as the Democratic party of this city. But it's not. The Democratic party became connected with Tammany only because it began years ago to hold its meetings in our hall...
...customary features of musical shows-such as hordes of pretty, naked ladies and many sentimental songs-are not emphasized in The Grand Street Follies. Mayor Walker, however, without whom no amusement is complete, appears by proxy. There is no plot and the best that could be hunted up in the way of a hero was poor old Trader Horn whose senile and ridiculous maunderings in Manhattan form the framework for little pictures of less decrepit celebrities...
...grand idea. It could hardly fail. The four of us left our tent and went to the starting line, confident that Abrahams would be beaten. ... I drew the inside lane. The moment I looked at the number I knew that the scheme was off. And my teammates seemed to sense it too. For the training that we had had in American athletics prevented us from seizing that kind of an opportunity...