Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gesture of chivalry, the late Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, "Grand Old Lady of Georgia," was appointed in 1922 to a Senate term which lasted 22 hours. Mrs. Hattie Caraway was appointed in 1931 to serve out her deceased husband's unfinished term, later won her nomination & election for the following full term...
Numerous British newsorgans carried rumors that Edward VIII will go to each Dominion and be crowned its King, then to India for a grand Durbar coronation as Emperor. To light this week came the fact that under the Statute of Westminster the various Dominions have proclaimed Edward their King in different formulas, partly of their own devising. At Ottawa, for example, His Majesty was proclaimed "Supreme Lord in and over the Dominion of Canada," a title which rings exceedingly strange in English ears...
...subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent's shoulders to the mat but to: 1) make him touch ground with any part of his body other than his feet, or 2) push him out of the circular 12-ft. dirt ring. Since this usually takes less...
...though I know I do not have a very good background to judge these matters technically, yet these paintings, I do not hesitate to say; please me much; though I have heard some say many of the works do look like grand railroad posters. I did try to talk with Mr. Mower but so many fine ladies around all a bubble to compliment him -- and yet I doubt if they said much either--that I could not ask or hear much with him himself. And for this I was sore at my heart, for this be Mr. Mower's last...
...exhibition made its debut at the Chemical Industries Exhibit held in the Grand Central Palace this fall. Arthur B. Lamb, Erving Professor of Chemistry, became interested in it at that time, and used his influence to bring the "Children" here as soon as possible after their New York appearance...