Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Associated with Mr. Jacobs was a small, extravagantly mustached press agent named Benjamin Sonnenberg, whose tasks in the past have included making Mrs. Roosevelt a shoe saleswoman on the radio, promoting Trader Horn and the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, urging socialites to play billiards. Promoter Jacobs and Press Agent Sonnenberg last week met five bridge players from France when they landed in Manhattan. Having beaten the masters of twelve nations at Brussels last June, the French team imagined that it and the Four Aces, winner of the Spingold, Vanderbilt and a dozen other U. S. trophies, would settle down...
...other thing is just another musical. Even the color of the name "Coronado," which belongs to a most swanky hotel in Lower California, and the rhythm of Eddie Duchin, a Massachusetts boy who has made good in the grand style, fail to make the picture particularly exciting. There is an adorable collegiate youngster who is everybody's pal and puts tapioca in drain pipes; he doesn't exactly prepossess...
After losing the first two games, John L. Clark '36 staged a grand finish by winning the next three games, thus conquering his opponent...
...heard Rev. Dr. Samuel Walter Grafflin, 66, a colleague from White Plains, N. Y., declare: ''The Church is spending too much effort reaching the nice little boys instead of the hell-raisers. And while I'm at it, let me say something in favor of that grand old word, hell. I'd like to know the bo who first called that word profane. The ministry could do nothing better than legitimatize it. Hell is the only word you can use to say, 'It's as hot as,' or 'as cold...
...cheered, paraded around the village common. Gilbertville, once a model industrial town, has been depressed since its mills closed four years ago. ¶ At Winchendon, Mass. some 500 men & women worked in two 8-hour shifts to supply a record-making toy demand. Leading items: hobbyhorses and miniature baby grand pianos. ¶ Allegheny Steel reported a 1935 (ten months) increase in alloy sales of 16% by volume, 18% by dollars. Allegheny specializes in "Allegheny and Ascoloy Metals," chromium nickel stainless steel alloys. ¶ In the year ended Oct. 31, 1935, U. S. railroads abandoned only 1,692 miles of track...