Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pedro, night before the Japanese denunciation, Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commanding the U. S. Fleet, announced from his flagship U. S. S. Pennsylvania grand maneuvers next spring in the Northern Pacific by 177 war boats and 447 war planes over 5,000,000 sq. mi. of strategic seaways. Exulted the 100% American Los Angeles Times: "A vast armada, the largest and most powerful by a wide margin ever assembled under a single command in the world's naval history...
...Commons of England are not invested with more of power and dignity by their legislative character than by that which they bear as the grand inquest of the nation...
Leaf into Local. Tooting through the night, Grand Trunk-Canadian National Railways' proud International Limited (Montreal-Chicago) was brought to an unscheduled halt near Dundas, Ont. Ahead the engine's searchlight picked out a dark jumbled mass. Walking down the tracks trainmen heard moans, screams, shouts. Farther on they saw scattered Christmas presents, a blood-spattered doll with smashed legs, a fox terrier whimpering over a man's mangled body, another body without a head. Upended on the brink of a 150ft, cliff was a wooden railroad coach with screaming people inside. From the splintered debris...
Next day the Maple Leaf hit a heavy truck near Chicago, hurled it into a parked car, injured one Mike Heneghan. Three-day score for Grand Trunk-Canadian National: Dead, 24; injured...
...useful to drama than true to life, is the theme of Author Thome's pleasingly plausible novel. Wisely he sets his English protagonists in Spain, where the sun is hotter, the moonlight more insidious, where anything unusual may happen. . . . A microcosmic melodrama, of the same general type as Grand Hotel, Delay in the Sun is brightly and neatly written, almost persuades the reader that Author Thome's fancy has merely foreshortened the facts...