Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TALK BUT I HATE TO INTERRUPT GROUCHO. I SPOKE IN PUBLIC LAST YEAR IN PORTLAND WHEN I ASKED FOR A RAISE IN SALARY BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE HEARD ME. I MAKE A PRACTICE OF SPEAKING EVERY TIME CHICO MAKES A GRAND SLAM, SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR ANOTHER SPEECH IN 1937. REGRET I CAN'T GET ZEPPO IN THIS WIRE...
...That grand picture of Clark Gable on your front cover (TIME, Aug. 31) was a real treat. And the very revealing article on radio programs in general, and the Hollywood hours in particular, was most interesting. The fact that Louella Parsons is in cahoots with Hearst is all many people will .want to know about her. The Parsons' introductions, gushy and mealymouthed, are thorns in an otherwise enjoyable bowl of soup. How different from those of De Mille, Hughes and the informal Mr. Crosby...
...buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
Author Tunis likewise surveyed the reports of the Class of 1911 at Yale and Princeton. Mathematically average Yale-man of 1911, he found, "is a lawyer in New York, with an office downtown, and a house above the Grand Central on a side street east of Fifth Avenue. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian." His Princeton counterpart is 46, "in business with an office in lower Manhattan, lives in Montclair, N. J., has two children. He has seen every Yale game since the War." As stanchly Republican as their Harvard contemporaries, Yale and Princeton men will support Landon...
...Fifty-nine-year-old Benjamin F. Cheek, Clinton, Ind. garage owner: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 event of U. S. trapshooting; at Vandalia, Ohio...