Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hill's Concertino on second hearing was perhaps more ingratiating than at its premier two years ago. It succeeds in accomplishing its intentions with proper buoyancy and Lustigkeit. The concertino is in one movement, opening with a jazzy theme and then passing to a brief slow movement; from a grand splash for the piano, a vigorous rondo, interspersed with a recurrence of the previous themes, concludes the piece. Pianists may rightfully resent the use of the "instrument of the immortals" as a mere bundle of hammers...
...taking Deputy Ernest Blunk as hostage, went to the jail garage. They could not start the two cars there. Dillinger tore out ignition wires. Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand Jury which indicted Dillinger. There stood Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 sedan, equipped with red headlights, a siren, a short-wave radio set and decorated with the sheriff's badge. With Blunk at the wheel, and another hostage, the two fugitives set off across country...
...plot to murder Rasputin originated in a Guards regiment in which Prince Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri were serving. They enlisted the aid of Vladimir Purishkevitch, a member of the Duma. When lecherous Rasputin reached the Youssoupov palace on the night of Dec. 16, servants were kept at the head of the stairs, talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide...
...Brewer Jr., 35, made his debut as an educator last fortnight when he became president of Olivet College (enrollment: 200) in Olivet, Mich (pop. 566). Last week he made his first presidential bow with a Founder's Day speech celebrating Olivet's 90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
Wonder Bar (Warner) is the Grand Hotel of musical pictures. It delineates occurrences in an elaborate Paris night club run by Al Wonder (Al Jolson), where a lovely patroness (Kay Francis) bored with her husband, a depraved dancer (Ricardo Cortez) and his svelte partner (Dolores Del Rio), an impoverished financier and the eccentric but high-spirited host involve themselves in the emotional entanglements customarily reserved for one room melodrama...