Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grace of God and by the recently expressed will of 78% of her 250,000 subjects, the Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, reigns and rules over Luxembourg. Her richly wooded and softly meadowed realm dozes complacently between Belgium and Germany. Her capital, the City of Luxembourg, rises aloof and serene upon a small plateau. Her mild and irreproachable consort is Prince Felix de Bourbon-Parma. Last week a dire project was under way to introduce into this quiet Eden a prodigious roisterer, a mighty brawler, a veritable Serpent...
Last week despatches told that Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, had been besought to give Zubkov sanctuary. She had received, it was said, a personal and impassioned plea from the doting wife who is, after all, the sister of a onetime German Emperor. Would Grand Duchess Charlotte, 32, sympathize with Princess Victoria...
Despatches finally asserted that the young Grand Duchess had signified her willingness to permit Serpent-Man Zubkov to enter and reside in her Eden, but solely on condition that he prove himself capable of respecting the public peace...
...Chauncey Mitchell Depew Jr.). He remained board chairman of the New York Central up to his death. A few hours after he died, steelworkers swung the final girder into place atop the pinnacle of his last project, the 36-story New York Central Building behind the Grand Central station, dominating famed Park Avenue...
...Significance. Let a man mention prosperity in the U. S. today, and 20,000,000 people will cry "myth," while 100,000,000 will cry: "Isn't it grand!" Mr. Mazur takes prosperity for granted, though he admits that it contains a few dark spots. Keen in his own perceptions, he writes in a style that is easy and pleasant to grasp. He gives this booming country better advice than can be found in a fifty-foot shelf of the works of eminent boosters...