Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real benefit that Keeley gave his patients was rest, nourishing food and rigorous physical hygiene. He made the drunkard take a bath every third day and change his underwear every four or five days. They were "cured" in a month, so happily and so numerously that they formed a "Grand Army of American Drunkards...
...Story. On the shores of Lake Undega in New York State is Berkenmeer. Its Main Street has a gaudy haberdashery shop, but there are also ancient elm trees that once sheltered a tougher tribe of Yankees. Arthur Gordon, a descendant, is the grand vizier of Berkenmeer. With an air of detached gentility, he saw to it that "the hay was got in from the golf links before a thunder shower, dances were run off with no deficit, horses were not frightened "by steamrollers. . . ." An ebullient Rotary had begun to suspect him of not being a big enough booster. But such...
Finally there arrived in Berlin from Copenhagen the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Nicholas II. Having visited the young woman, the Grand Duchess Olga formed an opinion which she still holds and was at pains to cable to Manhattan last week. It is summed up by the ejaculation, "Impostor!" At Copenhagen this view is known to be held by the 80-year-old Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (TIME, March 28, 1927), consort of the late Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas...
...Anastasia." No imperial personage would be more welcome in the U. S. than Her Imperial Highness, Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest and most vivacious daughter of the last murdered Tsar of all the Russias. Unfortunately a young woman who landed from the Berengaria, last week, claiming to be Anastasia, was believed to be almost certainly an impostor...
...seasons ago at the Metropolitan, and presently the telegrapher's daughter from Kansas City was making hundreds of thousands of dollars. They did it for. Mary Lewis, the runaway girl from Little Rock, Ark., who slipped overnight from the ranks of a Ziegfeld chorus to the bosom of grand opera. They repeated it again last week for Grace Moore, onetime musical comedy star, of Hitchy-Koo, Up in the Clouds, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue...