Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prior, 1,000 miles at sea, where the slow Atlantic groundswell sweeps across the edge of the Grand Banks, the Coast Guard cutter Mendota slid to a stop, engines dead, church pennant at masthead, to pay the annual homage of the Ice Patrol to the 1,513 dead who caused its creation. Rolling in the trough of the sea with a bleak grey sky above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service...
...most Americans the Coronation signifies a grand, un-British display of costly robes, real jewelry, and antique carriages. The masses know that well-to-do tourists are pouring into London by the carloard with baggage and accents revealing origins all the way from Taunton to Tokyo. They know that miles of wooden stands with rubberized bunting have been built, that one rehearsal with brass bands and everything took place before 200,000 at dawn...
...best bread if only you'll tell them a story of your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel on the highest peak, the American Express on Main Street and Haig and Haig on every other bill board. And you'll meet an Oxford student at every bar, a Harvard man in every cinema and an American no matter where you are. And sometimes you're awfully glad...
...grand climax came when somebody suggested that the boys go out in the Square to play. This resulted in a game of G-Men and gangsters in which the proctors beat the rioters to the gate every time...
...show reached its grand finale with the Justices rubber-stamping decisions and tossing them toward the President in time to the music...