Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most amazing I have ever heard. You try and imitate what occurs when you twist the dial very rapidly on a new radio--sounds silly as hell, but "Man With a New Radio" is still very funny-- as is "And the Angels Sing"--done in the best grand opera tradition . . . Ten years ago: Lobe, the dog, was the star attraction with the Horace Heidt orchestra . . . Sacramento, Cal.: The Superior Court held a Sacramento city ordinance prohibiting music of any kind after 11 p.m. unconstitutional! No local reference needed...
...young men of Greenwich Village one better. He is a young man, or at least a middle-aged man, who has written a play about a young man writing a play about the wife of a young man writing a play. The total effect, leading up to a grand climax in the last act, leaves the audience a bit at sea about what playwright is writing which play about whom...
...Germans, and Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled southwest, while the British got between him and his bases. In trying to head toward home under cover of mist and smoke screens, he ran into the British rear-ships and fled westward again...
Radio Luxembourg, whose transmitter in the little grand duchy is within sight of the German border, subsided at the outbreak of the war, has not been heard since. Radio Normandie, like all other French stations, has been put under military supervision, now devotes most of its time to propaganda, none to merchandising. To supply both stations with sponsors and commercial material, U. S. agencies like J. Walter Thompson, Blackett-Sample-Hummert, and Erwin, Wasey have for the last several years been doing brisk London businesses...
...earnest seeker of truth, which he thinks he has found in science, David pulls out for London to live on his grand-patrimony while he studies biology. Strapped before his third year is out, David braves old Sir Thomas Danby, his father's father, who has had no notion of his existence. The bastard's ordeal turns into an idyll. He finds himself on the Riviera, with an allowance of a thousand pounds a year, chaperoned by a worldly-wise epigrammatist, soon in bed with an authentic beauty named Diana, to whom he writes verses. War talk...