Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted as his daughters. No sooner had he died than one of them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began to quarrel with Hadji Butu, the late Sultan's grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang won the first round. Since the Sultan's corpse was rapidly putrefying and could not be buried until a new ruler had been chosen, she secured the appointment of her husband Datu Umbra as Sultan pro tern. Meantime, datus...
Unheeding, 8,000 Paris slaughterhouse employes walked out. Clerks of all Paris' great department stores continued their "stayin strikes." The world-famed dressmaking houses had to close. Guests made their own beds in hostelries as various as the ultra-conservative Grand Hôtel and the swanksters' Hôtel Georges V. Outside Paris, for every strike settled when the week opened, another was declared. French trade union leaders were frantic, their supposed authority flouted and slipping everywhere...
...Grand old man of U. S. sculpture, 73-year-old George Grey Barnard, was courageously carrying on with the great Rainbow Arch of Peace which he hopes some day to give the U. S. public. Last month vandals broke into the abandoned trolley powerhouse in upper Manhattan which is Sculptor Barnard's studio, wantonly destroyed $17,000 worth of finished figures, left unharmed the full-scale plaster model of the Arch. Said Sculptor Barnard: "I must smile and learn to do better...
...even get time to get a drink of water any more," complained a clerk in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station information booth. Said a ticket agent in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal: "You see a lot of new faces now, and the trains are fuller...
...dislike of doing business under the Roosevelt Administration. A more logical explanation was that Mr. Kent was simply tired of the radio industry. If he does not begin manufacturing something else, he can settle down for good to enjoy what he once called "the simple life, on a grand scale...