Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no warrant or written complaint against Frederick Jockell, attorney of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Yet he was arrested in Manhattan on a charge of grand larceny, clapped into jail with "a howling Chinaman." So, claiming that he had been humiliated, Mr. Jockell sued Detective John J. Quinn (who arrested him) for $25,000. Last week a jury upheld Mr. Jockell to the extent of $1,000. Presiding Justice Joseph Morschauser of the New York Supreme Court added: "The verdict should have been ten times as much, so as to teach New York police officers to be more careful...
...Manhattan last week pallid from malaria, recently reached the top by following a ledge* that ran thinly up Mt. Roraima from the Brazilian side. Atop Mt. Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts...
...Third Cabin advertisement which is illustrated by a page of photographs of "life at sea". Much trouble was evidently taken and the photographs and their grouping are wholly in the bur lesque spirit from the shuffle board game with pie pans to the representation of Lady Montbatten ascending the grand stairway of the New Amsterdam third class port holes in the background...
Thus Signor Benito Mussolini is placed in a position to absolutely dominate the Chamber by indirect appointive means. Other features of the law include: 1) Reduction of the number of deputies from 535 to 400; 2) The Grand Council to draw the nominees which it approves for candidacy from panels submitted by exclusively Fascist organizations, such as the 13 "corporations" which represent all Fascist agricultural, industrial and employer groups; 3) Suffrage to be accorded to celibate citizens over 21 or to married citizens over 18, provided that they pay certain taxes or are of the recognized clergy or are state...
...That 70-year-old Giuseppe Agostini redeemed an evening of Philadelphia Grand Opera. He stepped from the audience to the stage to sing the last act of Faust when Tenor Ivan Velikanoff was taken suddenly with bronchitis...