Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a shower of heavy, leaded glass. When the Majestic docked in Manhattan Captain Trant, suffering from an infected scalp, was rushed ashore to a hospital. In a Mineola, L. I., court, to petition that her name be fixed once & for all, appeared Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William B. Leeds" gave rise to confusion and that "Princess Xenia" was of doubtful legality, the judge granted her permission to drop her title, revert to her family name, be known henceforth...
Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...
Last month 350 graduate students from 26 assorted Italian universities arrived in the U. S. for a grand sightseeing and goodwill tour of U. S. colleges. Before they sailed back to Italy last week, they had visited no less than 35 campuses and provided the country with an interesting litmus-paper test on the political and educational ideas of Benito Mussolini...
...half-forgotten ex-newsboy and shoe-polish hawker was bent on raising as much hell as possible in the industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire. He had just got control of Loew's, Inc. for some $75,000,000. He paid another $19,000,000 for a string of Gaumont theatres in Britain without ever looking at them. But he owed all this money...
Last week, 18 years after Floyd Odlum arrived in Manhattan, so green that he tried to walk from Grand Central Station to Wall Street (3½ mi.), Mrs. Odlum was 42, mother of two sons, sprightly wife of the head of the biggest investment trust in the U. S. but still a Westerner in speech and manner. And her husband gave her a present. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum was duly elected president of Bonwit Teller, big Manhattan smartshop...