Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businesslike Mr. Dewey not only did so, but, as the special prosecutor whom Mr. Lehman had appointed to head the Legislature's New York racket inquiry, last fortnight he suddenly subpoenaed some 400 scared Marinelli heelers to appear before the grand jury. At this point a public hearing like that which trapped hapless Mayor Jimmy Walker began to seem to Tammany chieftains a worse prospect than giving Mr. Dewey a second scalp from their wigwam. Last week Boss Marinelli wrote Governor Lehman two letters. In one he resigned the office he would have held for only 28 days more...
...village of Big Heartbreak, Crevecoeur-le-Grand, about 50 miles from Paris, nervous chickens went to roost, hysterical cows were herded into their barns, and the town's leading citizens put away their shotguns last week after such a wedding as the village will not soon forget. Josephine Baker got married and became a French citizen at the same time...
...world her marriage to an Italian count, one Pepito di Abatino. Research proved first that the count's title was bogus, next that they were not married. But married in earnest was Josephine Baker last week to Jean Lion, wealthy French manufacturer and amateur aviator. Crevecoeur-le-Grand was chosen for the nuptials, the village mayor, six-foot Jammy Schmidt performing the ceremony...
Arrested on charges of grand larceny and brought to trial in a Chicago courtroom last week, Defendant Rockwood sat sheepishly silent as Prosecutor C. Vernon Thompson described his unique activities. Until his business slumped last summer, 43-year-old Mr. Rockwood, father of six children, had been a highly respectable wrecking contractor. Hard times set him to stealing and his regular crew asked no questions when he sent them, to dismantle the Diener factory. After moving out safes, typewriters, files and adding machines from the office and $30,000 worth of machinery from the plant, they proceeded on Mr. Rockwood...
...grand evening!" commented King George after the last turn, a Scottish shepherd who sang A Hundred Pipers an' A', after which 100 pipers from Scottish regiments marched in piping their loudest, burst into God Save the King before a backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. Cried Scottish Queen Elizabeth "Thank you for a wonderful surprise...