Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a sizzling sun organdied mannequins in the pesage of Longchamp's swank racetrack and Paris workmen in the field blinked the sweat out of their eyes for the start of the Prix de la Porte Maillot, day before the Grand-Prix last week. Most of them had bet on the U. S. favorite. Joseph E. Widener's El-Kantara, French Jockey Semblat up. When the barrier went up to send the horses off clockwise around the track, El-Kantara twitched back to his counterclockwise U. S. training, whirled and started off in the opposite direction...
...chair over the rail. Then the hot, short-tempered crowd turned mob, rolled out of the stands into the track yelling against Jockey Semblat, the bookmakers, Pepino, the Government and Alexandre Stavisky. They set fire to half a dozen betting booths and piles of hay, tore down fences and Grand-Prix decorations. The horses lined up for the next race but when the crowd did not budge, it was the chargers of the decorative Republican Guards that came pounding down the stretch. It took two hours and 1,000 police reserves from Paris to clear the track...
Last month, a Los Angeles Grand Jury indicted David Allen and an obscure cinemactress named Gloria Marsh for immorality. Last week the testimony of an extra whose name was not revealed was made public. The extra charged that Allen & Miss Marsh had entered a beauty shop where she was employed and registered her for work; that Allen had later offered her a job if she would "submit to him," that Allen had asked her to invite extra girls to her apartment for parties; that misconduct was usually the price of securing work...
...Excellency, dazed with grief, was not at home to reporters last week, but month ago he was interviewed. At a long table sat a moth-eaten Grand Duke and a threadbare general of the Imperial Army holding in place a pair of trousers which His Excellency was pressing...
...Grand Duke, the general and His Excellency stiffened. "We shall do what we do now. Somewhere in a little street of Paris or New York we shall press trousers...