Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little more clearly than could most of their bewildered neighbors. Well known to the first group were the depravity of Roehm, the jittery excitableness of Little Man Hitler and Dope Addict Goring, the iconoclastic records of Conservative von Papen and Reactionary von Schleicher, the anomalous position perforce occupied by Grand Old Man Oom Paul von Hindenburg. Many thanks for the two-year build-up which made last week's "purging'' seem logical, the action of its protagonists entirely in character...
Perfectly grand! When you have infantile paralysis you are not very strong for a few years. The Lord, I imagine, knows when he gives us things and why. . . . Many times I have thought that the very qualities that the President had to acquire as the result of infantile paralysis made it possible for him to go through the last 15 months. ... I don't exactly recommend it, but it's a grand thing to have behind...
...book about the Chilean adventures of a Delano to be presented to Santiago's University. At Seville in 1929 Fourth Cousin Jorge, who is closer kin to the 32nd President of the U. S. than the 32nd President was to the 26th President, won the Ibero-American Cinema Grand Prix with his silent Chilean film, The Street of Dreams...
...Grand Rapids' most famed furniture man, Robert W. Irwin, chairman of the Furniture Code Authority and president of Robert W. Irwin Co., had no exhibits at the Chicago Mart. Buyers could roam its 16 floors without seeing a single stick of Grand Rapids furniture. Grand Rapids held a show of its own last week sponsored by an association of which Mr. Irwin was president for ten years. In recent years Chicago has surpassed Grand Rapids as a distributing centre and manufacturer of upholstered furniture...
...Insurance Corp. was about to leave his room in Milwaukee's Hotel Schroeder one day last week and go downstairs to address the Wisconsin Bankers Association, when someone rapped on his door. In stepped a process server with a subpoena. Would Mr. Crowley please come right away? The Grand Jury could not wait. Mr. Crowley shook his head. frowned, remonstrated, finally went. While the Wisconsin bankers thrummed their fingers for 30 minutes, the Grand Jury extracted from Mr. Crowley all he knew about closed banks in Milwaukee county. Then and then only was he allowed to go back...