Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Smith was not convinced that the charges were "fantastic." He summoned a Grand Jury. Last week, swiftly, the Grand Jury indicted Mrs. Knapp on six criminal counts including grand larceny. Women-in-politics, and other citizens, drew no edification from these developments, beyond this: where many a Mr. Feasance might have acquired fat graft with one or two cunning strokes, this alleged Mrs. Feasance was accused of enjoying only $782.57 personally, obtained in trifling amounts from time to time by a series of clumsy, obvious, petty pilferings...
There are 30 obstacles in the Grand National-streams, fences, dry ditches, wet ditches, walls, hurdles, ditches and fences combined. Only one horse fell at the first jump. At the fourth jump Sprig turned a somersault and two other horses fell on him. The field went...
...They liked the feel of the hot lather on his flanks. They were glad that he had licked the U. S. invader, Billy Barton. Tipperary Tim was a dull horse, a plodder; but he had a nice name that would go down with powerful Poethlyn who won the Grand National in 1918 and 1919 and with nimble Jack Horner, U. S. horse who won in 1926. Hardly anybody noticed two other horses being led to the paddock. They were not feeling well. One of them had a stream of blood running out of his mouth...
...month, 2000 bowlers had bowled, some in bowler hats, some in spats, some in caps. They had gone to Kansas City, careless of their regular occupations. One was Phil Wolf, known in the alleys of Chicago as "the grand old man." Another was James Smith, world's all-round champion bowler, just back from a tour of the U. S. Harry Orf, another, rode in an automobile, bowled into a tree, was taken to a hospital, died. Mallott and Grau rolled naturals over and over. But on the last afternoon it was young Henry Summers who was photographed with...
...been killed in the World War while saving the life of Hugh Bradleigh, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Then follows the logical cementing of the romance of Daughter Beth Levine and Hugh Bradleigh, happily avoiding the Jewish-Irish hookup. As Ma Levine, Beryl Mercer gave a grand performance...