Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Tweedsmuir is easily reminded of the Presbyterian divine who, when asked what he thought of Fielding's robust novel Tom Jones, replied, "Lads, it's grand stuff for taking the taste of the Apostles out of your mouth...
...Palace that "Mr." Buchan would make a fine Governor-General (part of Canada's reason being that, after 14 peers, the Dominion wanted a commoner), His Majesty proved so oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage as Baron Tweedsmuir (TIME...
...difference between Ancient Greece and Modern Greece is 2,000 years of intermarriage with Romans, Slavs, Bulgars, Vlachs, Sicilian Normans, Franks, Serbs, Venetians, Albanians, Turks. In modern Greek politics, the republican traditions of ancient Greece have become primarily a dream in the brain of Greece's ex-Grand Old Man Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos whose revolution of republicans and Greek islanders was smashed last spring by monarchical mainlanders (TIME, March 25). Since then Greek politicians have been scrambling on the monarchist bandwagon but always with reservations about actually recalling Greece's ex-King George...
...Grand Old Man Eleutherios Venizelos, exiled in a Paris apartment, eloquently said nothing...
...Wiggins Brown, daughter of a Baltimore physician, who learned to sing at the Juilliard School of Music. Todd Duncan, a rich-voiced baritone who heads the music department at Howard University, plays Porgy in such a way as to suggest that some day he might be a candidate for grand opera...