Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week their suspicions of scandal caused uproar in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin whence came Brooks's husbandless clients. Circuit Judge Frederick S. Lamb, sitting at Beulah as a one-man grand jury, summoned Brooks for questioning. Along went his adopted son Edward, a cripple who tended the herd of goats whose milk nourished the children. Along also went the wives of both men, and the orphan girl and two boys whom they were raising. Along, too, went Michigan welfare workers and State policemen who brought the accusations...
...Twenty Grand won the Kentucky Derby in 1931. Mate won the Preakness. When the season ended, Twenty Grand was three-year-old champion but many track followers still thought Mate the better horse. Two months ago, Mate was brought back from England and Twenty Grand came out of retirement for the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
...time at California's newest and finest track. A crowd of 18,000 turned out to see the old argument finally decided, watched a four-year-old filly named High Glee win the seven-furlong race by two lengths with a new track record. Mate was second. Twenty Grand three-and-a-half lengths behind...
...against the fools and the wicked, having, as a rule, no idea how like the fools and the wicked are to the wise and good." As for Sir Joshua Reynolds, who "hoped that British Art would take its place in the European tradition and achieve what he called the grand style," "one is tempted to take his mastery for granted," forgetting that "he learned to imitate the final results of mastery without going through the preliminaries." Still Fry is not altogether unmindful of the virtues of Sir Joshua--he began has critical life with an edition of the "Discourses...
Acting, however, is not the grand passion of Mrs. Norris' life. Her paramount pastime is croquet, at which she excels. The Norris summer ranch, La Estancia, at Saratoga, Calif., is virtually built around the croquet court, which is lined with floodlights for night games. The Norris croquet is an invention of their own, combining features of billiards and golf. Played with no boundaries, it is a matter of composition rubber balls, mallets of snakewood made in Manhattan. Mrs. Norris can get inordinately angry at her croquet partners when they are bad. Guests on the 200-acre estate...