Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahogany boudoir grand piano...
...come down to Washington ... I told you that I could do so only on a temporary basis; that one of my then senior partners, Mr. Henry Seligman, was not in good health. . . . Needless to say, I regret very much having to pull out. . . . I have had a grand time working with you and it has been a privilege which I shall not forget. ... As you know, when Mr. Seligman died two weeks ago I told you that I must finish up my work here . . . and go back to New York...
...money which the Government will have to borrow in the next few months nearly $4,000,000,000 will be necessary to provide the cash which the RFC dispenses. Although everyone knew that vast RFC advances were being made, few people realized on what a grand scale big Texan Jesse Jones was playing Santa Claus to U. S. business. His biggest benefaction for fiscal 1934: new capital for banks, $1,350,000,000; carrying farm commodities, $498,000,000; state relief, $462,000,000. These "staggering" totals will not represent total losses. Although they represent for the most part loans...
...cornered in a lie and baby-talks: "What did 'oo say?" When her mother finally admits to her father that before the strange child was born, Baron Munchausen had chased her across a field, Fanny pipes up: "I think he caught 'oo, mummy." As a Russian grand duchess stranded in Manhattan, she hypocritically laments: The Princess Dubinsky, Without her Kolinski, Is showing her skinski In a burlesque by Minsky...
...Grand Chaco is in itself a completely worthless piece of territory, comprising jungles and waste land for the most part. Unfortunately for Paraguay it borders on the Paraguay River. Hence, if Bolivia could gain control of it she would have a much coveted outlet to the sea, the lack of which has been keenly felt by that country since Chile closed the Pacific to her. Paraguay naturally is none too eager to see such an extension of Bolivian power in her back yard. The result is the present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost...