Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Graham Muschet Campbell's favorite boast that by Gad, sir, he knows how to ride a fractious horse. A Major-General, a K. C. B., Governor of the colony of Malta, his proudest moment was that spring day in 1896 when he won the Liverpool Grand National, a gentleman jockey, on The Soarer. In 1931 he was sent to handle a very fractious horse indeed, the island of Malta. Malta is Britain's most important naval base in the Mediterranean, but Malta is only 60 miles from Italy. Hundreds of Italian emigrants have settled there; most Maltese...
...weekend but for reasons of their own leaving quietly. The taxi sped across the State line to Middleton, N. Y. The train pulled in and they clambered aboard. The whistle echoed excitingly through the dark hills. Phelps Newberry Jr. and Henry Wetter Jr. breathed easier when they reached Grand Central Station and found no policemen waiting for them. They went to a cheap Times Square hotel, the Bradley House, registered as "Norman Thompson" and "John Adams." Next day, clad in sweaters so they would not look too genteel, they traveled up & down the Hudson River waterfront as cocky and tough...
...corks can be popped in the open to celebrate the return of American Independence. As we see it the Leverett Ball-Room will either be mercifully empty, its former habitue's staying away because of justified fear, or from justified business elsewhere; or more likely, it will be "One Grand Party." At any rate we shall certainly be on the premises...
...agent, Christus and Judas from Murenberg, a business man and his secretary seeking a quiet nook for illicit love; such is the assortment on the Twentieth Century going from Chicago to New York. Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, the authors of "Twentieth Century," have no doubt, been influenced by Grand Hotel; the scene of action jerks back and forth from compartment to compartment giving us an illusion of what happens on trains while we snore peacefully...
Divine Drudge (by Vicki Baum & John Golden; John Golden, producer). Based on a Baum novel (And Life Goes On) serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine this play has none of the swift movement, the arresting reality which made Grand Hotel a smash hit and a pattern for imitators. It unfolds a devious tale about a smalltown German doctor (Walter Abel) and his wife (Mady Christians). For seven years she has assisted him in perfecting what he believes to be a momentous medical discovery. Suddenly she runs away from her drudgery with a banker who has had a motor wreck outside their home...