Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chainstore evil" free coinage of silver. Not its assorted panaceas but the imbroglios of its chief brought the Khaki Shirts its notoriety. Last July when Art Smith was holding a meeting in New York's Queens, antiFascists demonstrated against him and one of them was killed. Before a grand jury Smith accused one Athos Terzani of the killing. Terzani was tried for murder and acquitted before one of Smith's followers, who had paid $2 to be made a captain, confessed the killing. Last week the Khaki Shirts were much disrupted: General Smith, having been convicted of perjury...
...Great Northern, Northern Pacific) and public utilities. He has given France a $5,000,000 art collection, a hospital, Napoleon's Park at Malmaison. Napoleon's famed Marshal's Table, all on the theory that art treasures should stay at home. France has given him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and honorary citizenship in Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College's Grand Old Man. Since 1927 his masons have been rebuilding the western face of the Trophy of the Alps, with an interior stone stairway ending in a great stone block...
After the first intermission:--Grand March for Costume Prizes. After the second intermission prizes will be given...
...office with the bicycle set up on the stand, is a training in continued reflexes. The pupil is taught to put on the brake at the word "Stop." He (or she) is shown how to sit properly (hygienic posture it is called) and all in all everyone has a grand time...
...waterfront runs high. Lonnie is again arrested, escapes just before he is lynched. His flight fills four scenes with excitement. As Lonnie's peril increases and the play becomes more intense, its shabby cloak of propaganda happily falls away. Stevedore turns into a glorious melodrama in the grand manner of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo or Dumas. When the white stevedores rush...