Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holding-up of a Grand Trunk Railway train at 90th street by six bandits who bombed open the mail car and made off with...
...Xenia of Russia, and thus a second cousin once removed of Tsar Nicholas II, arrived at Manhattan, last week, from a Caribbean cruise. To prying reporters she confirmed the fact that she has now undertaken the protection of that young woman who recently landed at Manhattan, calling herself the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas (TIME, Feb. 20). Discreet, Mrs. Leeds did not reveal the hidden whereabouts in the U. S. of this young woman, who she appears to believe is her third cousin...
...favorite maxim of Il Duce, that "No one may claim equality with him who represents the Government of the State," was given peculiar legal force at a Cabinet meeting last week. Rapping for order, Il Duce presented a decree embodying the notorious "electoral reforms" recently proposed by the Fascist Grand Council (TIME...
...unique ticket will contain only candidates who have been approved by the Fascist Grand Council, a body whose members are appointed by Signor Mussolini...
Before the time of Wagner, the use of foreign languages in grand opera had a raison d'etre in the musical quality of French and Italian; but no one would insist that the gutteral muttering of Teutonic heroes are more melodious than a reasonably good English version. There is really no reason for thinking it plebeian to enjoy understanding the words of an opera; the granting of this privilege is a type of one hundred percentism that has value...