Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellowstone Lake, fifth highest in the world. This year the guides are taking parties of four over to Shoshone Lake for a chance at the big Mackinaw trout. Molly Island, in the southeastern arm of Yellowstone Lake, is alive with pelicans. Next day, when you look into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, there will be ospreys which you will probably mistake for eagles. Eagles are banned from the park because they kill so much small game...
...Fourth of July Conductor van Hoogstraten played the blustering Grand Festival March which Richard Wagner wrote for the Centennial Celebration of the Declaration of Independence. Ever a shrewd business man, Wagner demanded $5.000 for his March and when it was finished he sent it, not to Conductor Theodore Thomas who had commissioned it for the Philadelphia celebration, but to a German bank, there to be held until the $5,000 was deposited. The few tender passages Wagner interpreted as being "the beautiful and accomplished women of America joining in the festival procession." The flyleaf of the score bears the note...
...fashionable West Hampton. L. I. where he surrounds himself with as many as possible of his enormous family. He has three sons, Paul, Lester & Arthur - all working in the business - and four daughters, Helen, Mabel, Emma, Alice. All seven are married and have presented Father Cuddihy with a grand total of 28 grandchildren (some of them nearly as old as his youngest daughter). A frequent summer visitor is the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. Chidwick. famed chaplain of the U. S. S. Maine, who likes to putter around the place in a ragged sweater. Publisher Cuddihy knows well many...
...branched in the manufacture of glace fruits, olives, maraschino cherries and lacquer solvents, Overholt has never done anything but make good whiskey. Thirty-one thousand barrels of Overholt went with the deal, giving National Distillers 70% of all U. S. bonded whiskey. Other National Distillers' brands: "Old Grand-dad," "Green River," "Mount Vernon," "Old Taylor," "Sunny Brook," and "McBrayer...
...Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into a broken-down old panhandler in the Orient. When Authoress Benson last heard of him he was in Macao, "where, for the moment, he stands balanced, as though on a steppingstone, about to step into a new life of grand sansation...