Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standard bearer of white civilization ruling over Asiatic peoples. But in life he was above all a gourmet; the symbol of the pleasures of life; dictator of modes; regulating all other ways of life to the way of enjoyment, and living to enjoy while living; beloved by the grand mondc of the Continent; inspiration of the chefs of the Savoy Hotel in creating the justly famous poulard Edward...
...Manager Witherspoon was genial and relaxed as he talked with his aide, Edward Ziegler. He beamed when Treasurer Earle Lewis came in to report that next year's subscriptions had exceeded his greatest expectations. "That's grand," said Herbert Witherspoon and crumpled suddenly to the floor, the statement of his plans clutched tightly in his hand. Hour later a hearse drove up to the shabby stage entrance, carried Herbert Wither-spoon away-dead from an attack of coronary thrombosis...
...Trail" from the "Grand Canyon Suite" Grofe...
...expenditure, he had $252,528.02 to hand over to the A. M. A.'s treasury. That treasury now contains $851,972 in land and buildings, $1,181,405 in Government securities, $1,043,375 in railroad, municipal and other bonds, and enough minor assets to make a grand total...
...Chamber's new head and a personal friend of President Roosevelt since student days at Groton and Harvard. An affable Rochester (N. Y.) capitalist with his family's traditional interest in that city's Security Trust Co., President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois, where he is the State's largest individual land owner, he owns the biggest corn farm...