Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand French finale, after the flogging, the "executioner" pulls the lever of the guillotine. The blade is so arranged that it stops with a gruesome thump just short of the flogged poule's neck, but excited tourists are found to relish the sadistic idea that it might fall all the way. Female spectators invariably scream. To prove that she has actually been flogged, the poule invites attention to the welts on her thrashed posterior, solicits tips...
With tempers taut the Government staged a grand "proletarian demonstration of Revolutionary solidarity,'' sent all Government employes and a total of 200,000 Revolutionists prancing through the streets of Mexico City with catcalls for the church. Spectators beat up a policeman who tried to arrest a marcher for shouting "down with this farce of a parade! Give us bread and schools and work!" Meanwhile Government planes bombed the Capital with thousands of anti-Catholic propaganda posters, touting, among other things, the marriage of a famed ex-nun (see p. 62). "The time has come," proclaimed President-elect Lazaro...
Within the Gates (by Sean O'Casey; George Busbar & John Tuerk, producers). Playwright O'Casey's fantasy prompted Manhattan reviewers to go on record as follows: "Nothing so grand has risen in our impoverished theatre. . . . It is a humbling job to write about a dynamic drama like Within the Gates. . . . The theatre is richer today than it was 24 hours ago. . . . In comparison with Within the Gates, most of the plays that have come from overseas in recent years seem but feeble little fingers poking vainly at the moon.' " Irishman O'Casey, who had been...
Edwin M. Snell, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Lipman G. Feld, Kansas City, Mo.; Theodore Smith, Kansas City, Mo.; Egbert W. Fischer, Butte, Mont.; Oliver E. Rodgers, Anaconda, Mont.; Perry J. Culver, Exeter, N.H.; Douglas W. Overton, Concord, N.H.; Norman E. Vuilleumier, Manchester, N.H.; Elmer R. Best, Cheviot, O.; Robert H. Bloomberg, Cleveland, O.; Wesley L. Furste, II, Cincinnati, O.; James H. Goulder, East Cleveland, O.; Walter W. Jeffers, Worthington, O.; Millard L. Kaplan, Cincinnati, O.; Jack L. Mason, Lakewood...
...Royal Hussar, the tallest of the King's tall sons received a warm greeting from Governor General Sir Isaac Isaacs, a tumultuous welcome from half a million cheering Australians. That Prince Henry, 34, is being groomed for the Governor Generalship was last week no State secret. Grand climax of the Melbourne Centennial-the one thing which last week was of interest to all the world-was the MacRobertson Trophy Race from Mildenhall to Melbourne...