Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heaven, the divine Emperor of Japan, was returning from Grand Army Maneuvers with Sergeant Honda out in front in the police pilot car. Since any street down which His Majesty is to ride must first be swept, purified and sanded, to make a wrong turn might seem impossible. Suddenly Sergeant Honda's heart was in his throat, his eyes bulged and sweat poured from his forehead. His pilot car had made a wrong turn. He was leading the Divine Emperor down a street unswept, unsanded, and unguarded! As horrified courtiers later reported, "'The surprised spectators were not even...
Chicagoans knew them last week as Franca Somigli, Giuseppe Bentonelli and Anna Turkel. All three were young U.S. singers making their débuts with the Chicago Grand Opera...
...fanciest title belongs to the simplest canvas: Skull and Its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Has the Temperature of a Cardinal Bird's Nest. An elongated grand piano is flying off into the air. The keyboard runs earthward into a heart-shaped skull which is indeed leaning on a night table. Sharp eyes can find the cardinal bird, but there is no nest...
...exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president of Barker Tobacco (independent), and President Wood Fitch Axton of Louisville's famed Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. Inc. (Spuds, Twenty Grand, Old Loyalty, White Mule...
...Grand Island, Neb., frank Mrs. Sam Garrett told her husband she wanted to elope with a traveling salesman. Helpful Mr. Garrett sent the children to a neighbor's, borrowed a car, offered his services as chauffeur. Together Sam Garrett & wife & rival set out on the elopement. Explained Mr. Garrett: "I didn't want to make her mad." Struck with remorse at her husband's unselfishness, Mrs. Garrett changed her mind, called off the elopement...