Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elmers stopped streetcar service by camping in the middle of the tracks on busy Grand Boulevard. Elmers marched out into the middle of Lindell Boulevard, asked each other: "Who's got the dice?" threw down match boxes, bits of tin, Missouri's milk-bottle-top sales tax tokens, proceeded to roll the ivories and completely demoralize traffic. Elmers capered about in diapers, smocks, underwear and funny faces blowing bugles, shooting blank pistols, tooting whistles, ringing bells, hooting sirens, beating tin cans. Prime trick was to stop a motorist, "inspect" his brakes, lights, horn, windshield wiper, then lift...
Meantime in Des Moines a Polk County grand jury upped the number of State officials awaiting trial to five by indicting State Liquor Commission Chairman Bernard E. Manley on a charge of having sold a bootlegger 20,000 State liquor seals...
...thereafter unraveled in a long-drawn courtroom scene. The crime which took place on the night of Jan. 16 concerns a fictional Swede named Bjorn Faulkner, who bears a close resemblance to a real Swede named Ivar Kreuger. Faulkner had built a financial empire largely through finagling on a grand scale. He and a secretary-mistress named Karen Andre (Doris Nolan) arrive in Manhattan where he sets her up in a penthouse. After the Crash he finds that he has only one asset left, his personable self, which he is willing to trade in marriage to the daughter...
...accent, to drill by ear those who were unable to read a note, to help some members of the cast decide on names which will look imposing in the program. Great advantage has been the fact that none of the singers was handicapped at the start by having real grand opera ways. The principals, Porgy and Bess, have never sung on the stage before. Bess is one Anne Browne, a product of the Juilliard School of Music. Porgy is Todd Duncan, a Gershwin discovery from Howard University in Washington...
...innocent girl surrounded by disillusioned dames who have lost more than their youth. As a result Raymond Holden's Chance Has A Whip emerges as particularly refreshing, with at least one extended section that is calculated to remain long in readers' memories. The grand passion in Hendrick Fillmore's life is his love for beautiful, dark-eyed Leda Putnam, daughter of the founder of the Buffalo steel company of which Hendrick is secretary. With two children of his own, and a sharp-tongued wife, Hendrick is in no position cheerfully to surrender himself to his passion...