Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thorough knowledge of police operations and an acquaintance with back roads. Old storage plants make excellent hideaways, of which several are often necessary if the chase becomes hot. Such an organization can be formidable. The U. S. President himself set two Secret Service agents on guard over his grand-children-"Sistie" & "Buzzie" Dall and Sara Roosevelt-at Little Boars Head and Rye Beach, N. H. when an unparalleled "wave" of abductions, three major kidnappings and half a dozen attempted ones, burst violently into the news last week. Swindler. Three weeks ago at "The Dells," a suburban roadhouse northwest of Chicago...
...Irene Gömbös-Jewish daughter of a Jewish champagne manufacturer. Died. Louis M. Kotecki, 51, Milwaukee City Comptroller, indicted four months ago for malfeasance; by his own hand (pistol), after shooting and critically wounding Chief Deputy Comptroller William Wendt, whose testimony before the grand jury, Kotecki believed, had made it appear that the city had been mulcted of some $500,000 through his careless checking of bond transactions; in Milwaukee. Died. Dr. Raymond Philip Dougherty, 55, professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, curator of Sterling Memorial Museum's Babylonian Collection; by his own hand...
...gateway to the Yosemite is Merced, in central California. Pert, goodlooking college boys drive the buses and co-eds perform cheerfully but inexpertly as waitresses. Whopping groves of Sequoia gigantea help prepare you for the first glimpse of Yosemite Valley. Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around...
Five nights later the Dell was again filled, this time for larger, more exciting entertainment-Philadelphia's first outdoor grand opera. As in most U. S. cities, even indoor opera has led a precarious existence in Philadelphia. Conductor Smallens himself once called it a "bataille des dames" (battle of ladies). That was just after his own Philadelphia Civic Opera Company, headed by Mrs. Henry M. Tracy, was disbanded, eclipsed by Mrs. Edward Bok's Philadelphia Grand Opera, which temporarily ceased functioning last autumn (TIME, Oct. 10). The fact that costumes, scenery and lighting apparatus from the Grand Opera...
...generally considered a thing of rare architectural beauty (see cut). Inside it was a magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with a splendid collection of French paintings. The murals were by Gabriel Ferrier. But what most impressed a Chicago still living close to the stockyards was a private elevator and the report that the huge castle was burglarproof. The doors had no outside locks, no knobs. The only...