Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft, indeed, were the tones of the British Army's crooning that they caused audible snorts in the letters-to-the-editor columns of Britain's press. These by-Gad-sirs huffed that U. S. jazz and crooners had sapped the grand traditions of martial music. Said they: "The whole difference [between 1914 and now] is that then we called men 'lads' and now we call lads 'men.' . . . Little Sir Echo is in waltz time, and no army ever waltzed its way to victory...
...Abraham Flexner, grand old man of U. S. higher education and its severest critic, nine years ago founded the Institute for Advanced Study, where topflight scholars (well subsidized by a $5,000,000 endowment provided by Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) might devote themselves to the pursuit of pure learning. He brought to his Institute, housed in Princeton, N. J., Albert Einstein, a group of promising Ph.D.s. This month Dr. Flexner saw his Institute (now richer by $3,000,000) move into its own building, Fuld Hall, on Princeton's outskirts. This week...
...himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendant Eagle of Art." His paintings, on the rare occasions he could get them shown, brought horse laughs from critics and public alike...
Seven Tower magazines (devoted to movies and radio, home and children, love and mystery) had shared a total circulation of some 900,000 copies before a Federal Grand Jury indicted Publisher Catherine McNelis for using the mails to defraud. (Case is still pending.) One of the best had been Tiny Tower for children, with around 150,000 readers...
...sets and costumes, with two fine leads and a capable supporting cast, Director James Whale has cooked up a rip-snortin' film paced and climaxed with plenty of gusto. Here's another case history to show that when moviedom is in command of its medium the result is grand entertainment...