Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another aspect of the grand manner as it is found in Secretary Mellon is his instinct for beautiful things. There is a richness about the sombre furniture and dark blue upholstery in his office which nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine...
...inflection is of small importance to the Grand Manner, which is a perfection of spirit underlying all a man's acts, private and public. Shy to a painful degree, Mr. Mellon is nevertheless noted for his courage. His integrity, of course, is beyond question. Memorable illustrations of these two qualities were the swift ejection from the Treasury in 1922 of Elmer Dover, Ohio Gangster, and Secretary MelIon's long stand-up fights on the Internal Revenue Bureau with hard-hitting Senator Couzens of Michigan...
...twelve loomed Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, still spruce at 67, who realized in 1917 the dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded the British Grand Fleet in the victorious though costly action at Jutland (1916) after which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine Jackson, Admiral Baron...
Probing more basically into the world wheat situation, Grand Meunier Vilgrain declared that French wheat kernels have been of poor quality since the War, and do not now contain a sufficient proportion of protein and gluten. This effect has been wrought by the post War shortage of man power on the farms, which has induced land owners to plant a species of wheat seeds giving a greater harvest with less care, but an inferior grade of wheat. For this reason the Grands Moulins de Paris bought 10,000,000 bushels of prime U. S. wheat for milling, last year...
Professor P. E. Raymond, associate professor of Paleontology and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, has been awarded the Walker Grand Prize of $1000 for his work on the fossils known as trilobites. Trilobites, now extinct, were marine animals somewhat similar to the present-day horseshoe crab...