Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome white-haired oldster was hailed for what he is: a grand old man of music, whose record has been rich, whose friends have been many, whose position in the limelight has never once dimmed since he slipped into his father's big boots a half century ago. For his jubilee performance he chose to conduct excerpts from Fidelio and from Die Meistersinger, for which he made his own English translation. On a different occasion critics would have commented lengthily on Baritone Lawrence Tibbett who was stalwartly enacting his first Hans Sachs. But the evening was Walter Damrosch...
...Manhattan, police investigated a new swindlers' dodge: selling the information booth in Grand Central Station as a fruit stand concession. Best price paid...
Twenty-four hours later, at Alapayevsk, six more captive Romanovs and two of their faithful followers met an even harder death. Grand Dukes Sergius, Ivan, Constantine and Igor, Grand Duchess Elisabeth, Prince Vladimir Paley, Secretary Romez, Nun Barbara Yakovleva were taken to an abandoned mine and thrown down a shaft. According to Investigator Sokolov, all were still alive after the fall except Sergius. The hand-grenades that were thrown down after them killed Romez; the rest died more lingeringly...
...household, asked them to come downstairs. Escorting them into a basement room, he told them that because of the approaching White armies it had been decided to move them farther away; the cars would soon be there. Besides the Tsar, the Tsaritsa, the Tsarevich and the four Grand Duchesses, there were a doctor, a valet, a chef and a parlormaid (holding a pillow that contained the Imperial jewels...
...Tsar's agonized protest with a bullet from his revolver. The Cheka gunmen opened fire. Last to fall was the parlormaid, who shielded herself with the jewel-packed pillow, ran screaming back & forth. She was killed with bayonets. When they examined the bodies they found that the Grand Duchess Anastasia had merely fainted. When she had been shot, the executioners wrapped the bodies in cloth, loaded them on a truck and carried them ten miles to an abandoned mine, where they were dismembered, burnt on gasoline-soaked pyres...