Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loesch grinned slightly when he recalled his first attempts to clean up Chicago under the Thompson regime. "It took us two months to get rid of Big Bill's police chief, Hughes. Once we got him before the grand jury, the Thompson machine itself forced him to resign. The work we then started back in 1928 has not stopped; today men such as Police Chief Allman are valiantly fighting crime in Chicago. Definitely less corruption exists there than in New York...
MEMORIAL HALL: A grand Ball-Room made over from an old theatre. Has been raided in the past year or so and a notorious belle was nabbed before she could do her famous disappearing act. Not much life in the floor show, but there are always plenty of tables to spread yourself out under. Good music on Thursday nights by Serge Koussevitsky and his Lads...
...means. Closes at tea-time. Rather bookish crowd. Rotten service, you usually wait an hour for what there is. No music, no rough-house. Drinking is frowned on, despite precious collection of 16th Century wine-cards. Ask to see the labyrinthine maze which lies behind the famous Grand Staircase...
When the doors of Grand Central Palace swung wide to a crowd that jam-packed the sidewalks for a block in either direction, 27 different breeds of cars in 250 different models were lined up smartly for judgment. They were, as they always are, the best automobiles the prima donna of U. S. industries had ever turned out. To help the crowd make up their minds, excited demonstrators, attendants, executives, engineers and mannikins swarmed over & under, in & out of each & every exhibit. Studebaker had golden girls and a golden queen who chanted: "Take a magic key and win a Studebaker...
...taken for her latest, best book. Few new facts can be adduced at this late date about mothers in general but Authoress Buck's version of the heroine-mother is a movingly honest statement. She still has what some critics will call a regrettable nostalgia for the grand Biblical manner, but such minor mincings are soon forgotten in the sincerity of her story...