Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same man who sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain in June 1932. His wealth lost, deprived of power but not yet humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before his arrest could be requested, he stole away in the night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing...
...Democratic. Last week, however, the distinguished onetime Senator had an unpleasant shock. A person named Goucher (pronounced Gooshay) had announced that he too was going out for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Goucher is also distinguished. His paternal family is of old French stock. His great-grandfather and two great-grand uncles were the founders of Goucher College for Women in Baltimore. He was the 14th in a family of 17 children; his schooling had extended only up to the third grade; he had been a cabin boy and a music hall singer; his wife was an actress whom he married...
...Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud, is a towering figure, 6 ft. 4 in. in his sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik's daughter. He has taken to wife over 100 of them in the past ten years, divorced most...
...outstanding productions as Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Philip Barry (a top-flight playwright who has never received the prize), the sensationally hilarious Once in a Lifetime by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart and, presumably on the grounds that they were not "American," Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen and Grand Hotel...
...winner was Omar Khayyam (1917). Winner of all this year's three starts as a 3-year-old, Cavalcade received $28,175 of the $37,000 Derby purse. In addition, jubilant Mrs. Sloane, first woman to win the Derby since Mrs. Payne Whitney's victory with Twenty Grand (1931) was taken down to the judges' stand to receive the $5,000 gold trophy. Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley made appropriate remarks. Bumbling Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky said it gave him "inexpress-, inexp- unexplainable pleasure" to present the cup. He then turned to the microphone, urged everybody...