Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John G. Hurd, no. 3 in national ranking, was beaten by Gilbert Kerlin 3L in foils, after starting the exhibition off by the graceful grand salute. Joseph Levis, formerly of M. I. T., No. 1 in national ranking and head of the last American Olympic team, defeated William T. Pocora 1G, former Princeton captain...
...uncontrollable yen for the young wife. She loves her husband deeply but Gurtler, the cad, tells her candidly that it's to bed with him or starvation. Her husband doesn't put up a strong show of opposition so she keeps her job and makes a grand hit. This, of course, breaks up the happy marriage and sends the husband out into the night...
...roistering entertainment in the grand style the Playgoer recommends this year's edition of George White's Scandals, held over through next week at the Boston Opera House. The skits are clever, the music very pleasant, the dancing superb. 75 George White Beauties 75 furnish a background which it must be confessed sometimes oversteps its bounds and becomes the center of attraction...
...decorative member of the old Walker entourage, and little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, Walker's Broadway companion, discreetly left town before his ship reached Quarantine. But the Master Brewers' Association, grateful for Walker's fantastic Beer Parade of 1932. was at the dock 2,000 strong. The Grand Street Boys and other sodalities with nothing to lose by consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired a dozen boats on which to welcome him home. The Press, always charmed by the slick little politician whose neat phrases helped them in making a living, was represented by a turn...
...opera in Chicago. Deficit that first season was only $12,000. Last year it ran up to $78,000, discouraged everyone but irrepressible Paul Longone. Lawyer Haight announced then that times were unpropitious to undertake another season, withdrew a large part of the support and the name "Chicago Grand Opera." Forthwith Longone went out for new backers, won the help of Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, renamed the organization the Chicago City Opera...